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Panel discussion: The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on society
Panel discussion: The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on society
In the last 6 months, we are witnessing a new technological race in the field of artificial intelligence. Generative language models such as OpenAI's GPT and Google's Bard have attracted the attention of the general public – many people far from the IT sector have already used ChatGPT or other similar technology. In this panel, we’re going to look at the AI ​​boom from several different perspectives:
  • technological: what these language models can do, what are their limitations and what is their future;
  • social: how their wider spread will affect society, what social phenomena they can cause;
  • personal: how this will affect us on a personal level, how each of us could catch up with technological progress.
The emergence of the Internet, and subsequently of social networks changed society – for better or for worse. Let's explore together how the growing adoption of AI-based technologies will change us.
The speaker
Trifon Trifonov
Trifon is a co-founder and shareholder of Astea, and serves as the Company’s co-Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer. He has 18 years of professional experience as a Technical Lead, Project Manager, and Software Engineer using a broad range of technologies to create complete turnkey, multi-platform, software solutions involving desktop, web, and mobile platforms. With his extensive scientific background, Trifon has expertise in the analysis and resolution of complex algorithmic, architectural, and technological problems, including image and video processing, cross-platform integration, performance analysis, and infrastructure optimization. Trifon also works as an Associate Professor at Sofia University's Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics where he teaches Computer Science and various technology courses. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, and an MSc in Mathematics and a BSc with Honors in Computer Science, both from Sofia University’s Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics.

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Melania Berbatova
Melania Berbatova is a teaching assistant and PhD candidate in Machine learning at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. Her research is focused on language technologies, and more specifically on large language models, such as GPT. Melania holds a master's degree in Artificial Intelligence and has multiple years of experience in building chatbots and other ML-powered technologies. She also has specializations in Data Science from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Entrepreneurship from Babson College, Massachusetts, USA. Melania believes that the development of artificial intelligence is beneficial to society only if it goes together with the development of the human consciousness.

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Elenko Elenkov
Elenko is the founder of the podcast network ‘Govori Internet’ and co-hosts the podcast of the same name, which is listened to over 300,000 times a year. He has more than 10 years of experience as a project manager in a Bulgarian-English-American company and worked in the internet department of Economedia during the creation of the modern Dnevnik and Capital. Founder and long-time chairman of the Begach Sports Club – an NGO that organizes over 15 amateur sports events a year. He likes sports, mountains and listening to NTS Radio.

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Anna-Maria Peeva
Anna-Maria Peeva is a psychologist, facilitator and trainer with experience in various training programs. She is a team, group and an individual coach.

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