The smartest girl on the Web: how a mathematics professor made $ 2.5 billion on AI

Among the clients of the company Amelia, which has developed a virtual assistant for business, are the world's largest corporations. And its founder, Cheitan Dyube, began with the fact that he decided to check whether a machine can think of Cheitan Dyube

In the 1990s, Chaitan Dube, an Indian immigrant, taught mathematics at New York University and did research in computer theory. As the entrepreneur recalls, one day he went to the university library and decided to take a magazine with his old article. it turned out that this magazine was literally covered with dust. “That’s how insignificant my early research seemed,” he says. “I felt I had to do something real to improve the lives of the people around me.” He jokingly called his work at the university "cutting trees", meaning that he spends paper on writing articles that are not needed by anyone. But it was an attempt to understand the fundamental problems of computer science that led him to create a virtual "girl", whose services are now used by Deloitte, BNP Paribas, Telefónica,