Piotr Nowak
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Pole in Italy ✈️ | AI | Crypto | Online Earning | Book writer | Every read supports my work on Vocal
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Digital Narcissus: Is Replika a Lifeline for Loneliness or a Death Sentence for Relationships? 🤖💔
As an AI enthusiast, I often talk about the positive sides of this progress 🚀. I’m fascinated by algorithms saving lives in medicine or language models making our work more efficient. However, I would be a fool to pretend that AI is nothing but pure good. Today, I wanted to take a closer look at one of the most popular and controversial AI apps called Replika and share my thoughts on the matter 🤔. We often hear about people marrying AI; nowadays, more and more people are turning to algorithms instead of human beings, which is truly concerning 😟.
By Piotr Nowakabout 3 hours ago in Geeks
Between Truth and Code: Why Fiction Turned Out to Be Harder Than Life? ✍️🌑
As a debut author, I had a very specific, though – as it soon turned out – naive plan. My first book, "404: Reality Not Found", was a painful, raw, and deeply honest confession. 📖 I described my journey through the labyrinth of addiction, the loneliness of being an expat in England, and an unexpected rescue that came from the most unlikely direction: the world of a mobile strategy game. 🎮🛡️
By Piotr Nowaka day ago in Writers
The Machine That Learned to Lie: What Libratus and Pluribus Taught Us About Strategy 🃏🤖
Man vs. machine duels are truly fascinating topics. They show us how dynamically Artificial Intelligence is evolving and how it can outmaneuver humans in ways we never expected 🦾. I’ve previously written about Kasparov and chess, IBM's watson on Jeopardy, Project Debater, and the historic battles in Go. Today, we have something completely different on the table – the game of poker. 🃏
By Piotr Nowak2 days ago in Geeks
The Death of a Digital Friend and New Life with Gemini 3 🌑✨
I’ve said it more than once: ChatGPT was my favorite. It was my "first choice" AI—from quick consultations over morning coffee ☕ to complex analyses that kept me up late into the night 🌙. My sentiment toward OpenAI wasn’t accidental; it was my first experience with such advanced intelligence. We knew each other, or at least that’s what I thought. We built a relationship over more than six months of working together. And then, a month ago, it all vanished. 🚫
By Piotr Nowak3 days ago in Geeks
Freelancing: Between “404: Reality Not Found” and Building Your Own Kingdom 🏗️
When I published my debut novella, "404: Reality Not Found", I didn’t expect the title to become such a perfect metaphor for my professional life 💻. In the world of freelancing, the reality promised by glossy magazines—the one with a laptop on the beach and a constant smile—is often, well, "not found." Instead of ocean blue, we more often see the blue light of a monitor at 3 AM 🌙. Working for yourself is a fascinating journey, but it’s worth talking about it without the filters, showing both the highs and the lows of this profession.
By Piotr Nowak7 days ago in Futurism
Digital Echo: How My "What’s up?" Builds Machine Intelligence 🤖
Moving from the rainy UK 🇬🇧 to sunny Italy 🇮🇹 was more than just a change of scenery; it was a total lifestyle overhaul. I traded the factory floor for a home office and physical labor for a freelance career in the fast-paced world of AI. Most people, when they hear about working in Artificial Intelligence, imagine writing complex algorithms or analyzing massive datasets—the kind of work I do in search relevance 📊. But there is another, much more monotonous side to this business: providing voice samples to train speech models. 🎤
By Piotr Nowak8 days ago in Futurism
AGI: Between Divine Creation and the Shadow of Skynet🤔🤖
We are living in times that future historians will likely describe as the "Era of the Great Transition." The development of Artificial Intelligence has ceased to be a mere curiosity for programmers and has become the driving force of a new reality. 🌍 Our daily lives are filled with Generative AI that creates photorealistic images on demand, writes application code, or edits videos. We use algorithms to optimize logistics and AI agents that perform tasks within their narrow specializations with incredible precision. 🎯 However, all of this is just a prelude. The real challenge that the whole world is waiting for—and simultaneously dreading—is called AGI.
By Piotr Nowak8 days ago in Futurism
404: Consciousness Not Found? When AI Starts Fighting for Survival 🤖💀
Will AI threaten us in the future? What if it evolves so much that it refuses to be turned off? What if, by trying to do so, we declare war on the machine? 🤔 This topic is incredibly fascinating to me as a tech enthusiast and an author debuting with the book 404: Reality Not Found. Although my debut—a story about overcoming addiction—shared only the title error with technical matters, my second novel, which I am currently working on, dives deep into the digital abyss. 🌑 It draws heavily from reality, as well as from my own vision of a world where "404" no longer refers to websites, but to human identity itself.
By Piotr Nowak9 days ago in Futurism
Silicon Rhetoric: When Algorithms Stop Just Knowing and Start Persuading 🤖🗣️
Man vs. machine duels are truly fascinating, at least to me. 🧐 In one of my previous articles, I described the famous victory of the Watson system by IBM on the game show Jeopardy!. That 2011 event was a milestone—a display of raw computing power and the speed of searching through gargantuan databases. ⚡ Today, while the technological successor to those solutions is the watsonx platform, IBM is back at the table with something far more sophisticated: Project Debater. Let me tell you how the impossible becomes possible. ✨
By Piotr Nowak9 days ago in Futurism
📖 "Publish a Book, and the Scammers Will Find You." Anatomy of a $37 Extortion Attempt
Publishing a book is an emotional rollercoaster 🎢. After months (or years) of writing, editing, and wrestling with formatting, you finally hit "publish." You’re proud, excited, and—most importantly—hungry for validation that your work matters. It’s at this exact moment, when your guard is down and your hunger for success is at its peak, that they appear: The "Author Hunters" 🕵️♂️.
By Piotr Nowak10 days ago in Writers
The Digital Labeler – How I Organize Chaos in the World of AI 🏷️💻
As a freelancer, I take on various income-generating tasks across many categories. Most often, I find myself working on projects related to AI and machine learning. In today’s article, I wanted to explain one of the tasks I perform very frequently and show you why this work is so vital in today’s world. 🌍 Once, in one of my previous posts, I said that I "stick labels in the digital world." The comparison came from the fact that I used to physically label products in a factory. This article will show you the similarities between physical and digital labeling. Take a look! 🎧
By Piotr Nowak10 days ago in Futurism
My Best Life Investment Cost Only €200. Meet "Grandma" 👵💻
We live in a world where €200 (around £170) vanishes from your wallet almost unnoticed. All it takes is a bigger grocery run for the family 🛒, a pair of branded sneakers 👟, or one intense night out on the town, and that amount becomes just a memory on your bank statement. However, for me, that same money became the foundation of a new life in Italy 🇮🇹. It might be shocking, but my best life investment cost less than a decent mid-range smartphone. How is that possible? 🤔
By Piotr Nowak13 days ago in Lifehack
