AO: The Hyper Parallel Computer You Need to Know - Sam Williams, Ep. 255

Today Jason is joined by Arweave Co-Founder & CEO Sam Williams. In this episode the two discuss the founding story of Arweave, solving infinite scalability, smart contract transferability, as well as breaking down actor oriented computing. Sam also explains the possibility of on-chain AI training with AO, AO’s ostensibility, what the ecosystem allows for developers. Plus; the two explore the blockchain trilemma and AO’s roadmap-enjoy!
Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.
This episode is sponsored by YGG.
Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(04:02) The history of AO
(09:51) Infinite scalability
(14:57) Smart contract transferability
(18:04) ELI5: Actor Oriented computing
(19:41) Composability trade-offs
(27:32) Removing on-chain AI training restraints with AO
(28:58) Security trade-offs
(32:31) The blockchain trilemma
(36:34) AO’s extensibility
(42:22) AO ecosystem builders
(45:09) The AO roadmap
(49:59) Outro
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[@kkuningas]

Super nice interview. Thanks Sam, Thanks Jason. Lfg.

[@davidefe493]

The interviewer clearly has no idea what the internet computer $ICP can do. You should interview someone from $ICP/dfinity team to get a balance view of what it is instead of just saying stuff like “isn’t that what we wanted to build “. The $IC is way ahead of $AO in a lot of ways. Education is important @interviewer

[@Maks1m_]

The AO will destroy everything

[@user-bf7gt9rr9r]

If you have the time, could you explain why ICP is way ahead of AO. Is it because the actual computation takes place on the ICP blockchain?

[@longfield8978]

The interviewer had explained why ICP won't work in other place, pls check b4 rugged

[@davidefe493]

@@user-bf7gt9rr9r Computation is on chain and verification is already functional. AO still need to figure out consensus to be at pal with $ICP. The value of blockchains is Verification. In older blockchain like Eth and Sol, it’s just verifiable logic. BTC is valuable because of its verifiable ledger that cannot be manipulated. $ICP is the first to figure out full onchain verifiable compute. So verifiable is the most importance feature of a blockchain but AO lacks this feature for now. I hope they figure it out soon.