In today's world, businesses need to be equipped with the right tools and strategies to stay competitive and agile. Joined by a true polymath guest, we enter AI and Data Science, two powerful technologies that are transforming the way companies operate and make decisions. Additionally, we dive into the world of token economics and auditing for crypto, explaining the importance of these concepts in building trust and ensuring transparency in the decentralized finance space.  

Our guest, Dr. Stylianos “Stelios” Kampakis, CStat has an impressive background in Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Economics, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and has worked on various domains including natural language processing, recommender systems, sports analytics, data culture, and neural networks. He is currently the CEO of Tesseract Academy, an organization that specializes in educating decision-makers on deep technical topics like Data Science, AI, and Blockchain.  

In this episode, we particularly talk about:  

• 02:38 – Dr. Stelios’ Career Story 
• 05:20 – How Dr. Stelios developed his interest in Data Science and Academia 
• 08:07 – Working with startups to innovate 
• 09:15 – The importance of learning in the tech space – application of basics to solve a problem 
• 11:00 – Dr. Stelios’ story about studying Predictive Modelling of Football Injuries 
• 16:30 – Working on different fields  
• 18:35 – The inspiration for founding The Tesseract Academy 
• 21:42 – Distinguishing Data Science from AI 
• 26:36 – The analogy of Medicine and Data Science 
• 29:11 – AI in the future 
• 31:19 – The possibilities of company layoffs with AI  
• 35:00 – How AI can help in a remote work setting, organization, and culture 
• 37:38 – What worries Dr. Stelios about AI 
• 41:35 – “Tokenomics” and Auditing 
• 45:30 – The goal of Tokenomics Auditing 
• 48:37 – What Dr. Stelios learned from the Philosophy of Mind in the experience of shifts from technologies 
• 49:30 – AI and Data being the mirror of ourselves.  
• 52:20 – How an insane amount of data creates a clever algorithm to replicate the human mind 
• 53:10 – Debate on functionalities of AI having emotions 
• 56:10 – How to find Dr. Stelios 

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Connect with Dr. Stelios:  

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-stylianos-kampakis/  
• Website: https://thedatascientist.com/  
• Dr. Stelios’ Books 
• Predictive Modelling of Football Injuries 

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