ION was presented to the media during the last Romanian Government meeting to make it more dramatic. The very Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca stood before the mirror, which was ION’s interface, asking questions, and ION answered them.

Actually, the Romanian speakers noticed an error right in this bogus launching. The PM, an ex-military general not very famous for his ability to communicate, looked like not learning the prompt correctly. He asked, “Cum pot românii să te învețe?”, which in English is ”How can Romanians teach you?”, while on the screen, his question was written differently. The exact meaning but different words. ION wrote on the mirror: ”Cum te pot românii învăța?”, which was not what the PM was saying.
This attracted the attention of the journalists, who felt it might have been a pre-set scenario, played poorly by the PM.

ION’s coordinating AI developer, Nicu Sebe, admitted this during a podcast with one of Romania’s famous digital marketing specialists, Dragos Stanca. In the below video, Dragos Stanca asked Nicu Sebe to tell him if somebody played the pre-set answers, and the latter admitted it.

Dragos Stanca: Someone played the answers that were pre-recorded, so to speak. It wasn’t like ChatGPT that it responds to you in real-time, right?

Nicu Sebe: At that moment, it really was, but the system can also make answers for sure.

How does this fake dialogue with an AI chatbot impact the credibility of the Romanian AI industry?

The dialogue was fake, and the head AI developer of the company programming ION admitted it, but he also said the system could generate answers. If so, why wasn’t it allowed to do so? Why this mascarade?

Digital marketing specialists think this is quite a severe blow to the Romanian AI industry. It’s even harder to fix it as it came from the highest administrative level of the country: its very own Government.

We asked the representatives from one of the Romanian digital agencies using AI extensively in their activity what their opinion is on ION’s launch.

Even though the product could be very good, if it is perceived as having a few flaws, the public will stick to this perception. ION, in my opinion, has two main flaws from the marketing point of view. The first is his name – a very common name in Romania, but it is perceived pejoratively by the people. There are jokes where the main character is Ion, and this doesn’t help people see ION in a very positive way. When your own people mock the name of the product you want to advertise, you have a problem.

The second flaw is that ION’s developers choose to present it to the public in a very bombastic style during the Romanian government’s meeting, which highers expectations. When doing that, you must carefully choose the characters playing the scenario. Romania’s PM failed to learn the copy and shuffled the words. It was enough for the journalists to notice and expose it to the world.

Unfortunately, this impacts the entire Romanian AI industry. When other similar products are launched, the public will doubt the product’s functionality and ask if that isn’t a new scenario played by other actors.

Catalin ADAM, digital strategist at TUYA Digital

In other words, even if ION might have the ability to have a dialogue with humans, exactly like ChatGPT, the way its developers choose to market the product failed utterly. Also, this cast doubt on the entire AI industry in Romania.

The irony is that Humans AI, the company which developed ION, has a perfect record of AI or blockchain products developed so far. Two years ago, we wrote that Humans.ai had closed its public token sale on Polkastarter in record time, raising $1,170,000 via the cross-chain token offering platform. We wrote about the failure of their product ION, which, again, might be an excellent product killed by its marketing.

The AI marketing lessons we should learn from here

ChatGPT is the standard of the industry. It is a perfect chatbot to generate answers on anything. It allows you to ask anything or demand the system write or plan something, and it will do very extensively. It comes with an API integration, which allows developers to use and integrate its functions anywhere.

The difference here is that ION is not like ChatGPT. ION’s mission would have been much more straightforward: to collect Romanians’ opinions on a dedicated governmental page, ion.gov.ro, and compile them to tell the government the people’s positive or negative opinions. It should’ve behaved like a mirror, which is why its interface was a mirror, but ION’s launch failed to persuade Romanians to use it.

There is a lesson to be learned here, and this is what we all should listen to when it comes to blockchain or AI marketing. The specialists from Crypto Marketing Center say the very same thing:

When you have the perfect product, lousy marketing can kill it. When you have a mediocre product, intelligent marketing can make it valuable. So, marketing is the key, and the Romanian Government proved it either has lousy marketers or poor actors to play the script. Either way, ION failed at its launch, just like thousands of other good products with lousy marketing.

Anne-Marie M. – growth hacker at CryptoMarketing Center

Maybe this is where governments should approach the digital marketing industry when marketing products like this. Or maybe they should simply wait and launch them when adequately developed. It would’ve been way better.

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MCRO, one of the most reputable software development companies in Cluj Napoca, launched Docviser, the first oncology healthcare application in Romania, dedicated to improving the collaboration between doctors and the care of cancer patients.

DOCVISER is a product that incorporates Artificial Intelligence to extract relevant data and provide the best results to improve medical decisions for those who use it. And the numbers so far are highly encouraging.

Since the launch of this application, it has been used by 99 doctors, nurses and pharmacists from 29 clinics registered in the application.

Artificial Intelligence helped all these specialists to prescribe 5106 drugs and treatment schemes and monitor treatment progress for the benefit of 1876 patients. During all this time, the platform supported establishing remote medical commissions to analyze 67 complex cases requiring multidisciplinary decision-making, with specialists located in different locations.

Docviser involves intelligently prescribing treatment through the continuous development of an artificial intelligence model. It recommends the optimal treatment in each case, taking into account both the active substance through the treatment protocol and the dose prescribed based on the one calculated and adjusted according to comorbidities, creatinine level and other relevant indicators that will appear in the future.

The product was developed with the direct involvement of oncologists, adapted to their needs and streamlines the flow of information from the patient to doctors, medical staff and pharmacists, offering real-time progress on the status of the treatment protocol.

The process of using DOCVISER involves oncologists but also assistants and pharmacists:

• Clinic doctors upload all patient data and initial diagnosis.
• For each case, a treatment protocol is assigned with the drug and dose recommended by the platform, or the doctor can decide to prescribe a new treatment.
• Once the treatment protocol is validated, it is sent to the pharmacy for preparation.
• As soon as the treatment is prepared, it is sent to the nurse to be administered to the patient.

Throughout the process, all the medical personnel involved in the patient’s treatment receive, depending on the level of access, live notifications about the status of the treatment protocol. Doctors can communicate through the web application through messages, comments or video calls, which made it possible to streamline the meetings of tumor boards.

DOCVISER helps me make better treatment decisions by leveraging the power of state-of-the-art technology and Artificial Intelligence. But even if we think about the current activities, such as meeting multidisciplinary committees – the application allows the oncologist to talk in real-time with other doctors from other specialties (pathological anatomy, radiotherapy, cardiology and others) or simply to ask for a second opinion, and this makes these decisions much easier to make in a very organized environment. Before Docviser, it was much more difficult to set up these commissions, and doctors had to send the documents from one to another to be analyzed and signed. It was harder to meet, we communicated in writing, and working remotely was impossible. Docviser offers us all the support we need to make decisions much easier and securely. Now I can focus on what matters most – taking care of my patients.

Alexandru Iliescu, Medical Director and head of the Oncology Department of Zalău County Hospital.

DOCVISER unifies technology with the oncology patient care process. Within this application, medical records and health history exist securely in one place for physicians and licensed medical personnel to gain a fast, in-depth, data-driven understanding of each patient’s needs.

„Working with professionals in the field and having on our side medical expertise provided by oncology experts, we have created an intuitive and easy-to-use platform so that doctors and the entire medical staff can collaborate much more effectively within the clinics. DOCVISER perfectly combines scientific research and experience accumulated over the years with artificial intelligence and the latest generation of technological advances. I believe these fields are closely related, and there is an extraordinary potential in validating scientific research with real-life data; therefore, the application contributes to saving patients’ lives by making medical decisions easier”.

Alex Lazăr, CEO MCRO.

At the end of last year, Alex Lazar offered an exclusive interview to our news platform, and he talked more about the advantages of using DOCVISER in oncology.

Docviser is an intelligent application for rapid care management of cancer patients and offers:

• Improving the collection of health data and the evolution of prescribed treatments;
• More accurate diagnosis, based on the medical experience of oncology professionals, transposed into the modules used by Artificial Intelligence;
• Personalized treatment protocols for each patient;
• The ability to communicate more quickly and efficiently between oncologists and the medical staff who help in oncological treatment;
• Cost and time management;
• Traceability of the medical document

DOCVISER is designed to become the online hub for cancer treatment services in the healthcare industry. This platform will become an indispensable tool for medical centers and open new cancer treatment and research horizons. The platform has the potential to revolutionize healthcare systems as we know them, using machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data and other intelligent technologies.

About MCRO

MCRO is a software development company focused on building innovative digital products. With over ten years of application development experience, MCRO’s software developers maximize the use of Artificial Intelligence from product creativity and design to development and scaling to provide companies with a maximized return on investment.

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The purpose of this approach is to develop artificial intelligence in a responsible manner, considering the risks and benefits of large-scale implementation of this technology, as well as respecting fundamental human rights and freedoms.

Artificial intelligence is a cross-sector technology and its development depends on the coherence of public and private approaches through their depoliticization and through a broad societal consensus. AI represents a unique chance for Romania, our country having all the ingredients to become a leader in this field.

Dragoș Preda, Secretary of State for Electronic Communications within the Romanian Ministry of Transport Infrastructure and Communications (MTIC).

The activity of AI4RO follows a series of fundamental principles:

1. Responsible AI – Responsibility and balance between the risks and benefits of artificial intelligence, especially considering the risks that may affect fundamental human rights and freedoms.
2. Open Data – Introducing and promoting the concept of digital data governance, especially the benefits of an open and shareable data structure, as well as the key role that this concept plays in the development of tangible applications of AI.
3. Balanced labour market – A constant concern for the Romanian labour market by analysing and preventing the side effects that artificial intelligence can have on it, as well as the development of skills for a labour market which is dynamic and complementary to artificial intelligence technologies.
4. Stimulus for economic development: Using AI to reduce the development gap between Romania and the European Union and OECD member countries.
5. Unique advantages ​- Romania has multiple competitive advantages that can transform it into a regional and international actor in the field of artificial intelligence, especially on the following levels:
   1. A larger base of hardware and software engineers, as well as programmers with the potential to transition in AI, when compared to other countries in the region
   1. Opportune geographical positioning, with the potential to develop ultra-fast communications networks and for regional and international interconnection
   1. The potential to develop public-private partnership projects with international companies developing AI technologies, given the membership of the European Union and given the strategic partnership with the United States and the possibility of attracting important public and private funding given the potential of a qualitative and quantitative leap major of the AI industry in Romania

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Gradient Ventures is known for investing in AI solutions such as Openly, Onscale or Test.ai, but also for many others. This time they chose to lead the investment round for Romanian app TypingDNA, a tech start-up using AI for a better world in terms of IT security.

Basically, the solution TypingDNA proposes uses behavioral-biometrics technology, in this case typing biometrics. The app simply analyses the way the user’s keyboard strokes (stronger/softer, speed, misspelled words, etc.) in order to detect if the one who types is the same who uses the user and password for a certain account.

In other words, you may bypass the password for a computer and you might have broken a certain account, but this app, which is a hidden layer of protection, blocks you from using the device. It simply identifies hackers or network intruders by analyzing typewriting, even during their input of the user and password.

How cool is that?

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