Who are the best AI experts in Brazil?


Who are the best AI experts in Brazil?

  • Ben Goertzel was born in Rio de Janeiro, and his other company biomind.com has a partner in Brazil, vettalabs.com based in Belo Horizonte.
  • Guile Lindroth (Guilherme Lindroth Filho) founder of nextos.com.br is based in Curitiba, I believe.
  • Helio Perroni Filho was the developer of the ChatterBean Java AIML interpreter, I believe based in São Paulo now.
  • Also based in São Paulo, Bruno Santanna (Bruno César Brito Sant’Anna) is a Java programmer who created a cool “LangBot Grammar Checking API” for English.
  • Hamilton R Amorim is an independent AI programmer based in Belo Horizonte.

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  • LingNet (Linguagem, Educação e Tecnologia) at UFRJ (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) is a good academic contact point for Human Language Technology in Brazil.
  • There is now a nearly 1,000 member Portuguese language Facebook group for chatbot developers in Brazil, called ChatBot Brasil.