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. What jobs AI is taking over?

  2. What jobs AI is creating in place?

  3. What human skills are most valuable in the future?

  4. How do you use AI in your work?

  5. How AI is different from other technologies before? What lessons we can learn from history?

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. Idea seemed facinating would be great to hear key lessons from that experience.

  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. Where we are in Gartner hype cycle for AI?

  2. Are investors tired of hearing AI startup, if yes why?

  3. Do all startups need AI?

  4. Are your investment strategy hard fact based or gut feeling, or mix of both?

  5. Have you ever used AI tools to help make investment decisions?

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

  7. What’s an example of an AI solution that exceeded your expectations in terms of its impact and utility?

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. Do you think it will be AI clone or would it just be a clever imitation?

  3. Do you beleve AI will become a techno religion?

  4. Do you think AI research discovery shows that there is intelligent design in the universe?

  5. Do you thin AI could be a tool for mass manipulations and control?

  6. If AI says that there is another dimmension of reality will people believe it?

  7. Will AI replace human relationships like in Her film, if not why? What is so special about real relationships.

On brighter note:

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

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

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

  4. If AI could take over any mundane task in your life, what would you choose and why?

  5. What’s your favorite AI-related conspiracy theory?