About Me

About Me

There are two things I love in life: technology and people. My super-power is to explain complex things in simple words and to engage people. Thus I love doing teaching, public speaking, programming and creative projects. I worked for 16 years at Microsoft.

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Public Speaking & Teaching

Public Speaking & Teaching

I am Associate Professor at MAI, HSE, MIPT and RUT, and I do many speaking engagements around technology, Artificial Intelligence and AI in Art. I was twice on stage with former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

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Projects & Research

Projects & Research

I have Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and practical experience of doing AI development for Microsoft. I currently do projects around AI and Art.

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Art & Making

Art & Making

As a hobby, I love creating things, and recently I am especially interested in using Generative AI for Science Art and Creative Writing. A few of my works have been exhibited in Electro Museum, Maker Faire and Museum for Russian Impressionism.

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New Blog Articles

Why Eating Cucumbers in the Evening Leads to Sleeping Disorders

Never Trust a Neural Network!

With the ChatGPT model being currently publicly available, many people start using it, and some believe that it can be used instead of Google to find the answers to their questions. Here I will explain why a neural network model should not be trusted. Read More ›

Fediverse or Metaverse, that is the question.

Content Creators of World, Federate!

With the latest changes happening to twitter, many of my friends are moving towards more decentralized social communications, and in particular social network called Mastodon Read More ›

Some thoughts about AI Art

Neurogenerative Models and the Future of Art

Latest text-to-image models can generate stunning images based on text prompts, both photorealistic and artistic, stylized under many existing artists. In this post, I show some examples, and try to speculate on the influence this can have on the way we enjoy art Read More ›

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