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Ivan Vankov (Gatakka)

Tech expert and podcaster known as Gatakka. In Digital Stories he talks about critical thinking towards technology, and together with Mariana Todorova he created a project in which AI-cloned voices read the news on the radio.

01Interviews · 29 Aug 2023

Gatakka, ChatGPT the Psychologist and the Price of Critical Thinking

Ivan Vankov (Gatakka), a four-time IBM Champion, longtime tech blogger and author of free tutorials that helped many into software, has worked in machine learning, programming, team leadership, DevOps and blockchain architecture, and is now a freelance consultant to promising ventures. With his vast knowledge and wide view of the trends, he practically sketches the future. What big news is coming after the AI boom, how will machine learning change our attitude to work, and how did ChatGPT turn out to be a remarkably successful psychologist?

Иван Ванков – Gatakka
02Technology · 4 Jul 2025

Who's Speaking—a Human or an Algorithm?

It's no news that AI generates images and texts that (we checked!) cannot be told apart from those made by humans. Video still seems to lag behind, but… Can you imagine a voice indistinguishable from a human one reading the news, or calling you on the phone with no chance of you telling the difference—not a cloned voice, but an entirely artificial one, in pure Bulgarian, a language almost impossible for non-native speakers? It's time for a resonant Digital Story, and a challenge awaits you afterward…

03Technology · 23 Aug 2024

Where To Now, ChatGPT?

To be or not to be? Left or right? Life is a string of decisions, and on them hangs everything, from whether we reach the peaks we dream of to the eternal riddle of what to have for lunch. So we bring Hamlet and ChatGPT together to find the labyrinths, literal and figurative, that the electronic Virgil is ready to lead us through: five cases where artificial intelligence is already here to guide us, and five where we will have to wait (or never live to see it).

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