2025-02-03 Podcast - Andrei Doktoroff

Andrei Doktoroff is a prominent entrepreneur and business leader here in Baltics. He is currently the Founder of "theIntelligent Space" and "AI for good", where he focuses on creating innovation hub with the focus on AI. He is also entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in digital products and investor in many startups. Finally he is alos founding memeber of mila.lv - AI Latvian Association. I know Andrei is also AI enthusiast and is using all sorts of AI tools in his work.

AI and business

Forrester report recently showed that many of white collar jobs are under high risk of automation.

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  1. Is AI replacing jobs?

  2. Which jobs AI would not replace? Why?

  3. How do you use AI in your work?

  4. How AI is different from other technologies before?

Harmony technologies

Several years ago we met when you were working on Harmony technologies that was a product that was able to read and understand human emotions, personality traits and other human characteristics. Correct?

  1. What was Harmony?

  2. How did it work?

  3. What was the reaction of the market?

  4. What did you learn from that experience?

  5. What was the most challenging part of the project?

  6. Did AI work as expected? Why?

VC and investor

Context: Gartner hype cycle image-20250203192943145

  1. Do all startups need AI?

  2. Where we are in Gartner hype cycle for AI?

  3. How do you decide to invest?

  4. Can AI evaluate a startup?

  5. What's the weirdest use case for AI you've seen someone pitch?

  6. What are the most useful things you have seen people doing with AI?

Fun questions

  1. If you could make an AI clone of any historical figure to have dinner with, who would it be? (have you tried charracter.ai)

  2. What's the funniest AI fail you've encountered?

  3. What's your go-to party trick with AI?

  4. What's your prediction for the most absurd AI product we'll see in the next 5 years?