John Licato

John Licato

Founder / CEO, Actualization.AI

About

My Bio: John Licato is Associate Professor at the USF Bellini College of AI, Cybersecurity and Computing. He is Director of the USF Advancing Machine and Human Reasoning (AMHR) Lab, and founder/CEO of AI startup Actualization AI, LLC. He designed and teaches the natural language processing course (the field that created ChatGPT) at USF, and his lab's mission is to not only make AI smarter, but to use those advances to make people reason better as well. His research expertise lies in AI, NLP, human reasoning, cognitive modeling, and legal / regulatory reasoning, with over 100 peer-reviewed publications. He has been featured in outlets such as NPR's Marketplace Tech, ABC Action News, and the Tampa Bay Business Journal.

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Maker History

  • FairPact AI
    FairPact AI
    Scan contracts & find gotchas before signing
    Jun 2025
  • Hallucina-Gen
    Hallucina-Gen
    Spot where your LLM might make mistakes on documents
    Jun 2025
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    Joined Product HuntMay 27th, 2025

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AI is everywhere...what’s one thing it still can’t do right?

I work with startup teams and use AI tools almost every day for writing, research, support, and more. It saves a lot of time, no doubt. But there are still things AI just can t do well.

For example, when reading customer feedback, AI often misses the real meaning behind the words, like when someone sounds polite but is actually unhappy. Or when making product decisions, AI can list pros and cons, but it doesn t really understand the bigger picture or timing like a human would.

Nika

8d ago

How successful were you when you used influencer marketing for promoting your business or product?

A few minutes ago, I read an overview of a report that more people take a source of news, not traditional outlets and media, but influencers. [I am attaching the screenshot from Reutersinstitute.]

TL;DR:

FB, YT, IG  More attention is dedicated to news media/journalists

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