Jan Tyl

Creator of Digital People and AI Philoposphers; founder of Alpha Industries

Jan is a researcher, entrepreneur, and promoter of artificial intelligence and an award-winning creator of AI-powered digital humans. In his work he often strives make AI more accessible and understandable to the general public. 

In 2018, Jan founded Alpha Industries in the field. Just a year later, in 2019, the company won the AI Awards for the best idea in the field of artificial intelligence for their Digital Philosopher project that brings famous philosophers back to live using AI, including the famous Velvet Revolution hero Václav Havel. Later followed Digital Writer and Digital Writer 2.0, collaborating with significant Czech writers.

For Czech TV, he created a digital human for the 2021 election Superdebate, which asked politicians unusual questions. Jan also created a number of other AI-based solutions, namely emotion detector, insult detector, DigiGoethe and DigiHavel.