Blockhash: Exploring The Blockchain

For episode 459, Co-founder & CEO Salman Avestimehr joins Brandon Zemp to discuss ChainOpera, a decentralized AI platform and a community-driven generative AI application ecosystem. He is also the Dean’s Professor of ECE and CS at the University of Southern California (USC), the inaugural director of the USC-Amazon Center on Trustworthy AI, and co-founder of TensorOpera. He is an expert in machine learning, information theory, security/privacy, and blockchain systems, with more than 10 years of R&D leadership in both academia and industry. He is a United States Presidential award winner for his profound contributions in information technology, and a Fellow of IEEE. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley/EECS in 2008, and has held Advisory positions at various Tech companies, including Amazon. ⏳ Timestamps: 0:00 | Introduction 0:55 | Who is Salman Avestimehr? 5:04 | Web3 interest on College campuses 6:00 | What is ChainOpera? 8:01 | What is the AI Economy? 13:18 | AI Agents 14:14 | ChainOpera’s Dec