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No other information technology has evolved as quickly, surprised us as often, promised as much, or cost as dearly as Artificial Intelligence. While its rapid rise has delivered many useful and profitable applications, AI’s confidence in being right is often matched by how profoundly wrong it can be – even choosing to lie. Many of us in IT know how to use it and when not to trust it. Unfortunately, inflated market hype has led to unrealistic expectations. As AI automation expands, and premature, risky agentic implementations increase, we can expect business failures, further erosion of liberty, AI-driven conflicts, and even existential threats.
Fortunately, by understanding these challenges, we have a chance to harness AI for good: building powerful software, running ethical and profitable businesses, advancing healthcare, and improving lives. If you want to be part of this future, consider both the promise and the peril of AI, and keep explaining those realities – not the hype – to others. Let Rafal help you in this task. Having studied and used AI and machine learning since the 1990s, and with long experience as a Data Scientist, he has helped others make smart use of uncertain, probabilistic technologies, including AI.
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As Data Scientist at Tecflix, Rafal focuses on making advanced analytics and artificial intelligence easy and useful for his clients.
He can help you find valuable, meaningful patterns and statistically valid correlations using data science and machine learning in data sets both big and small. Rafal is also known for his work in business intelligence, data protection, enterprise architecture, and solution delivery. While majority of his clients come from consumer and corporate finance, entertainment, healthcare, IT, retail, and the public sectors, Rafal has worked in almost all industries.
He has been a popular speaker at major IT conferences since 1998, and he had the honour of sharing keynote platforms with Bill Gates and Neil Armstrong. A natural educator, he explains complex concepts in simple terms in his enjoyably energetic style.
Rafal was born in Poland. He left it in 1990 to study computing in United Kingdom, where he earned BEng in Computing Science, followed by MSc in Foundations of Advanced Information Technology, at Imperial College, University of London. His studies were sponsored by Oxford Computer Group Ltd, where he later worked as a developer, trainer, and a consultant. Since 2000 he has worked for Project Botticelli Ltd, and in 2020 he founded a new online learning company, Tecflix.com.
Outside of IT, Rafal spends a quarter of every year finding abstractions in natural landscapes, expressing them through traditional, black-and-white, large-format film photography, making silver-gelatin prints by hand—see rafal.net. You can also follow Rafal on Twitter, or connect with him on LinkedIn.
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