William Tunstall-Pedoe

William Tunstall-Pedoe
FREng[2]
Born (1969-01-29) January 29, 1969 (age 55)
NationalityBritish
Alma materCambridge University
AwardsFREng
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial Intelligence
Institutions
Websitewww.williamtp.com

William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng[2] (born January 1969) is a British entrepreneur and computer scientist focussed on Artificial Intelligence. He was the founder and CEO of Evi (formerly True Knowledge),[3] a pioneering Voice Assistant, Semantic search and Question answering startup, and following the acquisition of Evi by Amazon was a key member of the team that built and launched Amazon Alexa.[4][5][1] He is currently the founder and CEO of Unlikely AI,[6] a British start-up focussed on producing safe, general intelligence using Neurosymbolic methods.[7]

  1. ^ a b c "William Tunstall-Pedoe: The Cambridge AI guru who taught Amazon's Alexa how to talk". Business Insider.
  2. ^ a b "2019 Fellows William Tunstall-Pedoe". Royal Academy of Engineering.
  3. ^ "The Brit taking on Apple's Siri with 'Evi". Wired.
  4. ^ "Amazon Alexa and the Search for the One Perfect Answer". Wired.
  5. ^ Vlahos, James. Talk to Me - How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think. Penguin Books.
  6. ^ "What the 'Father of Alexa' did next". Sifted.
  7. ^ "Alexa co-creator gives first glimpse of Unlikely AI's tech strategy". Techcrunch.