The 19-year-old guy who made the chatbot that beat 160,000 parking fines is now using it to help homeless people
by Elena Cresci from Technology | The Guardian on (#1Q5HB)
Creator of DoNotPay, which overturned 160,000 tickets in London and New York, expands service to assist those dealing with housing problems in the UK
The chatbot lawyer that overturned hundreds and thousands of parking tickets is now tackling another problem: homelessness.
London-born Stanford student Joshua Browder created DoNotPay initially to help people appeal against fines for unpaid parking tickets. Dubbed "the world's first robot lawyer", Browder later programmed it to deal with a wider range of legal issues, such as claiming for delayed flights and trains and payment protection insurance (PPI).
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