Training AI models on videos of drones scrapped from public sources. Everyone in Europe is building ani drone systems and nobody has real data. Lots of companies operating on synthetics only.
Lots of work to automatically filter and process scraped footage into something that will train well.
Senior ML/AI Engineer & Technical Leader with 12+ years building AI/ML systems, scalable backend architectures, and document intelligence platforms. PhD in experimental Physics.
Deep expertise in diffusion models, LLMs, retrieval systems, and real-time pipelines.
Frequent conference speaker (EuroPython 2025, PyCon Lithuania 2024/2025, Data Science Summit). Organizer of AI code and coffee meetup in Warsaw.
Experienced at bridging research → production, mentoring teams, and scaling MVPs to products with significant revenue impact.
We are now moving to a post human economy. When AGI automates all human labour, the consumer i.e. the bulk of humanity stops mattering (economically speaking). It then just becomes Mega corps run by machines making stuff for each other. Resources are then strictly priorities for the machines over everything else. We are seeing this movement already with silicon wafers and electricity.
Sales - especially B2B.
I've got a strong technical background (PhD in Physics) and have been writing code for almost 15 years (most domains, with ML more recently).
I'm also comfortable with public speaking (talking a conferences, pitching etc).
I feel sales is the last piece of the puzzle I'm missing
Senior ML/AI Engineer & Technical Leader with 12+ years building AI/ML systems, scalable backend architectures, and document intelligence platforms. PhD in experimental Physics.
Deep expertise in diffusion models, LLMs, retrieval systems, and real-time pipelines.
Frequent conference speaker (EuroPython 2025, PyCon Lithuania 2024/2025, Data Science Summit). Organizer of AI code and coffee meetup in Warsaw.
Experienced at bridging research → production, mentoring teams, and scaling MVPs to products with significant revenue impact.
Collecting public datasets for training visual AI models to track and target drones.
Drones are real bastards - there's a lot of startups working on anti drone systems and interceptors, but most of them are using synthetic data. The data I'm collecting is designed to augment the synthetic data, so anti drone systems are closer to field testing
Senior ML/AI Engineer & Technical Leader with 12+ years building AI/ML systems, scalable backend architectures, and document intelligence platforms. PhD in experimental Physics.
Deep expertise in diffusion models, LLMs, retrieval systems, and real-time pipelines.
Frequent conference speaker (EuroPython 2025, PyCon Lithuania 2024/2025, Data Science Summit). Organizer of AI code and coffee meetup in Warsaw.
Experienced at bridging research → production, mentoring teams, and scaling MVPs to products with significant revenue impact.
Anonymization of PII data in documents using diffusion models - I'm in the process of reproducing academic papers. The idea is you can replace sensitive information from financial/medical documents with synthetic analogues without visually altering them, so they can be kept/used for AI training
School, and education at large, isn't about teaching you what's economically useful. It's about building a society sharing a common base of values/morals, history, patriotism, as well as the basics of science, maths, &c. You want people who are able to think for themselves to iter and create new things which are in the continuity of your country's history.
The vast majority of everything you learn before university isn't that useful if all you care about is creating robots for your economy.
I wish it were about that. I understand that some countries' school systems have those goals, and that many succeed at them°, but I don't think my country (US) has ever had enough of "a common base of values/morals, history, and patriotism" for its schools to work that way. Maybe regionally it has at times, but public schools - always to their detriment - have been at the forefront of every "culture war" since their inception.
On the other hand, US schools' form (as distinct from the content they teach) - the schedules, the bells, the desks, the disciplinary expectations - has not been the subject of much debate or wide controversy, but it does encode and enculcate a particular value system. It was adapted from the Prussian model, and specifically intended to create docile industrial workers. That may have been a good idea at the time.
Now, of course, that docile industrial workers are not so economically important, that model doesn't make much sense. The public school system as a whole (I'm painting in broad strokes, and know myself of honorable exceptions) has shifted its purpose to (it's a spectrum, based on prevailing socio-economic conditions, and the individual kids in question) baby-sitting or incarceration.
I wish I weren't so cynical, but I've had too broad an experience with too large a cross-section of too many US public schools not to be.
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°I've seen the insides of a lot, though not so many, UK schools, and my limited impression is that their system is in a better place than the US, but bears the same flaws. (And that a special hell should await the members of the 2010 Conservative government who promulgated school consolidations.)
Fifteen years ago I taught ESL to a lot of German kids (from both University and non-U tracks), and was highly impressed with them, and with what they told me about their educational system. That impression is old, though, and I don't know how things might have changed in the meantime.
I have a good friend with a six-year old going to school in France. I like what she tells me about their system.
It really makes you wonder what the motivations are behind anyone who would want to drive society down this road just to see what's at the end of it when it's already pretty clear that it's nothing good for the majority of us.
Schools and universities were supposed to have non-economic purposes including theoretically governance. An old trope that was used to justify monarchies and nobility was the ignorance of the masses. That meme wound up dying out both from the middle classes and from the rise of universal* suffrage demonstrating that it had a huge role in ensuring stability as it gave an outlet for pressure other than violent uprisings. In the US at least that was part of the reason for public education. The other part being that they didn't want to leave the educational infrastructure in the hands of the Catholic school system for fear that it would leave them controlled by 'papists'.
* Occasionally the term effectively meaning only 'all men regardless of social class'. Perhaps related to the purpose of disincentivizing violent uprisings.
One lesson of history is that you cannot simply leave advocacy for self-interest in another's hands, as regardless of how much 'better' they may know, they do not know you and your priorities better than yourself. That was essentially already attempted in feudal past essentially. You need at very least the ability to choose your advocate. This makes education a necessity for a self-governing people. There was also another trope around the Great Depression claiming that democracy was 'obsolete' from industrialization and its top-down organization vs cottage industries. Lets not repeat history in falling for that again.
But even if we abandon such lofty principles there would still be a reason for education even if AGI does it better. Having people capable of fighting and/or maintaining the swarms of would still be essential for even cynical reasons of military power and monopoly on violence. It wouldn't just be using humans as canon fodder - most of the military manpower is logistical and the tail has only been growing longer in the tooth-to-tail ratio thanks to technological advancement. That technology is so dominant should highlight its power, considering just how effective raw numbers are in military science.
I’ve never understood the energy complaint. It’s a legitimate complaint for right now.
But humans are able to exercise a ton of thinking with remarkably low energy levels a day. And the calories of energy humans consume are also used primarily for physical mechanisms like movement, breathing, etc. so the energy requirements for pure thought is even less.
Why should improved AGIs in the future consume any more energy? Besides, AGIs across the world can communicate with each other. So once one AI computes something theoretically it should never need to do it again. It can tap into the answer saved by some different AI at some point in the recent past further reducing energy needs.
I really don’t see why AI energy consumption should be too high.
How do you get the idea that we have any of that technology? Brains are nothing like computers and we have almost no technology that is like biology. There is no reason to be sure that we can just scale down the existing tech to arrive at something as efficient. Maybe we can. But if not then developing a system that‘s more like chemistry could take 50 years or 100 or more.
Assuming it's possible, it might take decades or even centuries to get close to the human brain in terms of efficiency. Sounds like a problem even harder than fusion.
If we achieve true AGI we enter into a state where there is more value in withholding the technology than by even selling it to the highest bidder. It would conceivably enable a winner-takes-all scenario of the highest order.
There is a fundamental philosophical error in that assumption. Goals are not set by sheer rationality but emotionally. Logic is a guide to the means to the end and to give wisdom about how well pursuing a given goal may work but it is ultimately the emotional which sets the drive.
An AI life coach cannot guide you for if you would prefer having a large family, being part of a DINK couple, or remain single for the rest of your life. It can tell you the odds of success of living off of a band are low and to prepare backup plans,and that being a chartered accountant is a more reliable source of income but it cannot tell you what the right decision is to attempt.
Or for spitefulness. Imagine having all of your decisions made by equations, sounds like hell. There would be a significant amount of people that do the exact opposite out of willfulness and spite.
Lots of work to automatically filter and process scraped footage into something that will train well.