Meet The Russian 'Bot Man' That Wants To Clone Your Sales Force

Dmitry Kochin (left) and Alexander Neymak are the brains behind FuturologyAI, a largely self-funded ... [ ] startup that creates bots for sales teams. Russian bots are not just for election meddling anymore. Bots, whether Russian or American made, can also pose as virtual assistants ready to help an existing sales team, or build one where there wasn't one before. Dmitry Kochin is a Russian'Botman', taught the tools of the trade at the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, where he earned his PhD in computer science in 2006. His three-year old company, FuturologyAI, has a team of five developers, all of them sitting in an office in Moscow, building what he calls a "virtual sales force" and training bots to better understand human conversation.