Author – Vitaliy Goncharuk.
Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, over 40 startups have approached me seeking investment, with the aim of solving military problems.
Despite my interest in supporting my homeland, I have only invested in one of these startups.
The reason being that investing in startups that are likely to fail DOES NOT BRING THE VICTORY ANY CLOSER. Continue reading “Investing in Ukrainian MilTech Startups: Opportunities and Risks”
Originally the article was published @ European AI Alliance.
Since the beginning of the war, I have often been asked what The Expert Committee on Artificial Intelligence is doing now.
Are we still doing policy-making?
Certainly not.
Since the committee is a social institution, the same thing happened to it as to the rest of the other healthy structures during the war – it was urgently reorganized and focused on solving the main problem of the country.
Therefore, some members of the committee are now in the front-line trenches. Continue reading “My article @ European AI Alliance: The War in Ukraine and AI Regulation: Some Controversial Takeaways”
To launch an important initiative, in September — October 2022 I interviewed 15 independent development teams that make open source products for Ukraine’s victory in the war.
During the research, I came up with interesting findings and conclusions that I want to share with you in this post. Continue reading “Open Source during War: Challenges of Independent Development Teams in Ukraine”
Ahead of the mass production of HMDs I’m pleased to see the consolidation of old terms (AR, VR, AR Cloud, XR, virtual games etc.) into one — Metaverse. It was difficult to explain to third parties the differences and similarities between all these industries earlier but semantic integration into one universal sphere should now increase the capitalization of all players.
I would like to draw your attention to one aspect, ignoring which could lead the Metaverse industry to big problems in the near future. Continue reading “The Metaverse, real-world and its correlation”
The Atlantic Council has published my article “Ukraine’s roadmap to an artificial intelligence future”
My recent talk “#DeepFakes: pro & contra of democratic order”:
– Is it possible to detect DeepFakes?
– Is it possible to control DeepFakes?
– How will DeepFakes and synthetic content affect elections, society, government?
– What is the impact on ethics, social norms in 1-2-5-10 years?
I have spent part of this summer in four regions of Ukraine.
In these areas, economy is mostly based on conventional, or, rather, old industries, such as logistics/ports, agriculture, and heavy industry (metallurgy among them). Continue reading “#AI and Digitalization. How to Be a Global Champion?”
Let’s figure out how technologies are going to change the nature of power and of political leverage in the coming period of 3 to 7 years.
Today, we are getting more and more “AI advocates” blow their trumpets from all over about the coming era of cyberpunk and singularity. Yet, if you look around you see that we are far from living in the world featured in Matrix, Back to the Future, or Star Wars. Continue reading “How Technologies are going to change the Nature of Power”
Topic: “Artificial Intelligence Trends and Applications” @ Computex 2019, Taipei, Taiwan
As my main work is related to AI and brains for robots, (http://augmentedpixels.com) and I write in a blog about AI use cases in different industries, some big corporations involved in traditional industries ask me to help them solve problems with their AI research & development.
Usually, these problems are related to “over-budgeting” of R&D or issues with goal setting, or inefficient management in R&D teams.
Here are the most common issues and takeaways from my experience: Continue reading “How to manage “AI” development and R&D team in big corporations without “casting spells” and “doing rain dances”?”