William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng[2] (born January 1969) is a British entrepreneur and computer scientist whose primary field of expertise is 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 focused on producing safe, general intelligence using neuro-symbolic methods.
[7] Tunstall-Pedoe was born into a family of medical professional in Dulwich[8] and moved to Scotland when he was 13 years old where he wrote commercial software for a business run by the computer teacher at High School of Dundee.
Dan Brown used the software to create the anagrams that were integral to the plot of The Da Vinci Code novel and his name appears in the acknowledgements of all 80 million copies sold.