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== AI People Glossary == | == AI People Glossary == | ||
Biographical entries for people who shaped artificial intelligence: the mathematical precursors, the founders of the field, the deep learning pioneers, the architects of the hardware and robots it runs on, today's industry leaders, and the researchers who | Biographical entries for people who shaped artificial intelligence: the mathematical precursors, the founders of the field, the deep learning pioneers, the architects of the hardware and robots it runs on, today's industry leaders, and the researchers and forecasters who argue over AI's trajectory, risks and social costs. | ||
Compiled by ALT-TEXT for wiki.alt-text.eu. Companion to the [[AI Terminology Glossary]]; entries below cross-link to the relevant concept pages. | Compiled by ALT-TEXT for wiki.alt-text.eu. Companion to the [[AI Terminology Glossary]]; entries below cross-link to the relevant concept pages. | ||
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* [[Abeba Birhane|Abeba Birhane]] | * [[Abeba Birhane|Abeba Birhane]] | ||
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* [[Ray Kurzweil|Ray Kurzweil]] | |||
* [[Nick Bostrom|Nick Bostrom]] | * [[Nick Bostrom|Nick Bostrom]] | ||
* [[Eliezer Yudkowsky|Eliezer Yudkowsky]] | * [[Eliezer Yudkowsky|Eliezer Yudkowsky]] | ||
Latest revision as of 18:04, 7 September 2026
AI People Glossary
Biographical entries for people who shaped artificial intelligence: the mathematical precursors, the founders of the field, the deep learning pioneers, the architects of the hardware and robots it runs on, today's industry leaders, and the researchers and forecasters who argue over AI's trajectory, risks and social costs.
Compiled by ALT-TEXT for wiki.alt-text.eu. Companion to the AI Terminology Glossary; entries below cross-link to the relevant concept pages.
Precursors: the mathematical roots
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Ada Lovelace
- Charles Babbage
- George Boole
- Thomas Bayes
- Andrei Markov
- Ronald Fisher
- Kurt Gödel
- Alonzo Church
- Emil Post
- Warren McCulloch
- Walter Pitts
- Donald Hebb
- Claude Shannon
- Norbert Wiener
- Hedy Lamarr
- Grace Hopper
Founders: the symbolic and early AI era
- Alan Turing
- John von Neumann
- John McCarthy
- Marvin Minsky
- Arthur Samuel
- Ray Solomonoff
- Oliver Selfridge
- J.C.R. Licklider
- Frank Rosenblatt
- Seymour Papert
- Herbert Simon
- Allen Newell
- Nils Nilsson
- Edward Feigenbaum
- Lotfi Zadeh
- Karen Spärck Jones
- Hubert Dreyfus
Deep learning and algorithmic pioneers
- Geoffrey Hinton
- Yann LeCun
- Yoshua Bengio
- Jürgen Schmidhuber
- Sepp Hochreiter
- Fei-Fei Li
- Alex Krizhevsky
- Andrej Karpathy
- Regina Barzilay
- Ian Goodfellow
- Diederik Kingma
- Max Welling
- Kaiming He
- Dzmitry Bahdanau
- Kyunghyun Cho
- Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
- Jonathan Ho
- The eight co-authors of the 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need", which introduced the Transformer:
Systems, hardware and robotics
Contemporary research and industry leaders
- Ilya Sutskever
- Demis Hassabis
- Mustafa Suleyman
- Andrew Ng
- Dario Amodei
- Daniela Amodei
- Mira Murati
- Sam Altman
- Daphne Koller
- Percy Liang
- Yejin Choi
- Noam Brown
- Tri Dao
- Arthur Mensch
- Clément Delangue
Critics, ethics, policy and alignment voices
- Emily M. Bender
- Timnit Gebru
- Margaret Mitchell
- Stuart Russell
- Kate Crawford
- Melanie Mitchell
- Joy Buolamwini
- Cynthia Dwork
- Safiya Umoja Noble
- Ruha Benjamin
- Latanya Sweeney
- Cynthia Rudin
- Shoshana Zuboff
- Abeba Birhane
- Meredith Whittaker
- Ray Kurzweil
- Nick Bostrom
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Paul Christiano
- Gary Marcus
- Max Tegmark