Savas Parastatidis, MSc., PhD.
I build products that enhance our lives through the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI). I build technologies that support the natural interaction between humans and AI-powered experiences. I work as a Software Engineer at Meta‘s Reality Lab. I was a Senior Principal Engineer in Alexa AI and Cortana’s architect & co-creator amongst other roles.
“This Panda Is Dancing” is a poem that greatly resonates with me. It is about creating technology to “enhance humanity”, to enhance reality. (credit: poetic short film by Max Stossel & Sander van Dijk)
Latest from my blog:
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Digital Twin (my playground)
I am embarking on a side project that involves memory and multimodal understanding for an assistant so I wanted to start exploring the technologies involved. My “Digital Twin” is one of my playgrounds for learning and practicing with relevant technologies such as Python, LLMs, Langchain, Ollama, etc. I also started using Swift but that’s a…
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“This is exactly what LLMs are made for”
I was in Toronto, Canada. I’m on the flight back home now. The trip was very productive. A few of us went there to meet part of our team and discuss our plans for the coming months. First time in Toronto. Beautiful city. Next time I’ll make a point of staying longer. Stefan Scherer (a…
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“How we fell out of love with voice assistants”
The BBC article “How we fell out of love with voice assistants” by Katherine Latham is no surprise to me. It reminds me of numerous conversations during my Cortana and Alexa days about the importance of user value and trust. We tracked and tried to optimize many metrics. When we started paying more attention and…
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Ontology-based reasoning with ChatGPT’s help
Like so many others out there, I played a bit with ChatGPT. I noticed examples of create a new language and a new programming language. I decided to test ChatGPT’s ability to reason over an ontology that we create on the fly. I have worked on language/conversational systems for so many years. I knew this…
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Break from work
Hi all… It’s been a while since I posted on this blog. It’s been an interesting summer for me. I resigned from Amazon to take a break from work. I’ve been traveling, reading for fun, studying math and machine learning, and re-charging. I have been working on natural language/conversational systems for about 11 years now. It…
