Dima Plotnikov @plotnikplotnik

Buddy.ai has secured new funding: techcrunch.com/2024/10/31/bud… We're expanding our talented team and looking for passionate individuals to join us in revolutionizing early education. Open roles include Speech Recognition Engineer, Head of Game Design, Art Director, and…

Buddy.ai is hiring: buddy.ai/en/careers

Buddy AI is looking for an experienced HR Manager to build and nurture our high-performing remote team: buddy.ai/en/careers/hr-…

Buddy.ai is looking for an Art Director to develop a captivating and distinct visual style for our AI tutor and to lead the art team that will implement and perfect it: buddy.ai/en/careers/art…

Buddy.ai is looking for a creative and innovative Game Designer leader to build out game design works from the ground up and to make Buddy.ai as engaging as top mobile games: buddy.ai/en/careers/hea…

Buddy.ai is seeking a Lead Data Analyst to transform our company into a data-driven powerhouse: buddy.ai/en/careers/lea…. You'll play a crucial role in enabling stakeholders to make informed decisions, uncover game-changing insights, and supercharge our product's…

Buddy.ai is looking for a Speech Recognition Engineer to take communication with Buddy to the next level: buddy.ai/en/careers/spe…. You will directly impact Buddy's ability to understand hundreds of millions of children worldwide and enhance their education.

I’m conducting a small research project and would love to connect with fellow founders and professionals from B2C companies that handle a similar scale of users and events as we do at Buddy.ai. I'm looking for companies with 3M+ MAU and 300M+ new events/mo. I’m…

Buddy.ai on the Andreessen Horowitz "AI Voice Agents" market map: a16z.com/ai-voice-agent…

Here's a silly idea I had when ChatGPT came out (remember when that was?). What if we could generate new ideas by transferring patterns from one knowledge domain to another? ChatGPT made many believe there's "truth" in text. Can we extract new knowledge from LLMs? I'm skeptical.…

Is Graduate Student Descent still the king? The number of layers, neurons, and connections in a neural network is usually a manual design choice that feels like black magic. Training the weights is automatic, but the architecture itself is handcrafted. What if we treated the…

Human language sucks at transferring info between people. Same words, different meanings. Poor context understanding. Misinterpreted ideas. But it's a feature, not a bug! Like genes, memes need mutations. Bad retellings generate fresh ideas. Immersing others' thoughts in your…

Kids, in 2006 I discovered an incredible secret I still use today: You can reach anyone in the world with a single email. That visionary you admire? One step away. What's the worst that happens? Nothing. You end up in their spam folder with the other trillion messages. Best…

Hey chooms! Video games are the perfect mix of art and tech. Modern AAA games have set the bar insanely high, with their crazy complexity and thousands of talented creators. Even with all the knowledge and tools in the industry that should make game development easier, these…

The ideal is an absent object that still gets the job done.

TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) is a fascinating approach to creating a universal problem-solving method. I highly recommend reading the book by Genrich Altshuller. I use several key TRIZ principles all the time. One principle is to "frame the contradiction." If…

I'm thrilled to share that Buddy.ai has been named one of the TIME World's Top 10 EdTech Rising Stars of 2024! We are the only AI company to make it onto this prestigious list, which showcases organizations with the highest revenue growth rates in the EdTech…

Happy birthday to Ivan Crewkov, the man we found Buddy.ai with, a man of unbreakable will. You've made it 🚀 youtu.be/fDpSTbNdH5Y

I like this paper "Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness": arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708. It outlines state-of-the-art theories and how to apply them to AI. I find it fascinating and inspiring. It has both philosophical and technical…