10 Most Influential Personalities in Artificial Intelligence
– A pioneering figure in deep learning and neural networks.– Known for his work on the backpropagation algorithm and contributions to convolutional neural networks (CNNs).– Awarded the Turing Award in 2018.
Geoffrey Hinton
– A leading AI researcher and co-founder of the deep learning framework, Theano.– Known for his work on deep learning, recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and long short-term memory (LSTM) networks.– Also awarded the Turing Award in 2018.
Yoshua Bengio
– Co-founder of Google Brain and founder of deeplearning.ai.– Renowned for his online courses on machine learning and deep learning.– Formerly worked on AI projects at Stanford and Google.
Andrew Ng
– Professor at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI.– Known for her research in computer vision and for co-founding AI4ALL, a nonprofit promoting diversity in AI.
Fei-Fei Li
– A prominent AI researcher and Facebook's Chief AI Scientist.– Known for his work on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and contributions to deep learning.– Awarded the Turing Award in 2018.
Yann LeCun
– Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. (Google).– Renowned for DeepMind's achievements in AI, including AlphaGo, which defeated world champion Go players.
Demis Hassabis
– Cognitive scientist, author, and AI researcher.– Known for his work on AI safety and ethics and as a critic of some deep learning approaches.
Gary Marcus
– Co-founder and Chief Scientist at OpenAI.– Known for his research in deep learning and contributions to the development of OpenAI's GPT models.
Ilya Sutskever
– Creator of the Keras deep learning framework, now integrated into TensorFlow.– Contributed to the popularization of deep learning among developers.
François Chollet
– While not primarily an AI researcher, Musk has been influential in raising awareness about AI ethics and safety.– Co-founded OpenAI to promote ethical AI development.