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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, today's industry leaders, and the researchers who study AI's risks and social costs. | 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 study AI's 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. | ||
=== Precursors: the mathematical roots === | === Precursors: the mathematical roots === | ||
* [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] | |||
* [[Ada Lovelace|Ada Lovelace]] | * [[Ada Lovelace|Ada Lovelace]] | ||
* [[Charles Babbage|Charles Babbage]] | * [[Charles Babbage|Charles Babbage]] | ||
* [[George Boole|George Boole]] | * [[George Boole|George Boole]] | ||
* [[Thomas Bayes|Thomas Bayes]] | * [[Thomas Bayes|Thomas Bayes]] | ||
* [[Andrei Markov|Andrei Markov]] | |||
* [[Ronald Fisher|Ronald Fisher]] | |||
* [[Kurt Gödel|Kurt Gödel]] | |||
* [[Alonzo Church|Alonzo Church]] | |||
* [[Emil Post|Emil Post]] | |||
* [[Warren McCulloch|Warren McCulloch]] | * [[Warren McCulloch|Warren McCulloch]] | ||
* [[Walter Pitts|Walter Pitts]] | * [[Walter Pitts|Walter Pitts]] | ||
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* [[Grace Hopper|Grace Hopper]] | * [[Grace Hopper|Grace Hopper]] | ||
=== Founders: the symbolic era === | === Founders: the symbolic and early AI era === | ||
* [[Alan Turing|Alan Turing]] | * [[Alan Turing|Alan Turing]] | ||
* [[John von Neumann|John von Neumann]] | |||
* [[John McCarthy|John McCarthy]] | * [[John McCarthy|John McCarthy]] | ||
* [[Marvin Minsky|Marvin Minsky]] | * [[Marvin Minsky|Marvin Minsky]] | ||
* [[Arthur Samuel|Arthur Samuel]] | |||
* [[Ray Solomonoff|Ray Solomonoff]] | |||
* [[Oliver Selfridge|Oliver Selfridge]] | |||
* [[J.C.R. Licklider|J.C.R. Licklider]] | |||
* [[Frank Rosenblatt|Frank Rosenblatt]] | * [[Frank Rosenblatt|Frank Rosenblatt]] | ||
* [[Seymour Papert|Seymour Papert]] | * [[Seymour Papert|Seymour Papert]] | ||
* [[Herbert Simon|Herbert Simon]] | * [[Herbert Simon|Herbert Simon]] | ||
* [[Allen Newell|Allen Newell]] | * [[Allen Newell|Allen Newell]] | ||
* [[Nils Nilsson|Nils Nilsson]] | |||
* [[Edward Feigenbaum|Edward Feigenbaum]] | |||
* [[Lotfi Zadeh|Lotfi Zadeh]] | |||
* [[Karen Sparck Jones|Karen Spärck Jones]] | * [[Karen Sparck Jones|Karen Spärck Jones]] | ||
* [[Hubert Dreyfus|Hubert Dreyfus]] | |||
=== Deep learning pioneers === | === Deep learning and algorithmic pioneers === | ||
* [[Geoffrey Hinton|Geoffrey Hinton]] | * [[Geoffrey Hinton|Geoffrey Hinton]] | ||
* [[Yann LeCun|Yann LeCun]] | * [[Yann LeCun|Yann LeCun]] | ||
* [[Yoshua Bengio|Yoshua Bengio]] | * [[Yoshua Bengio|Yoshua Bengio]] | ||
* [[Jurgen Schmidhuber|Jürgen Schmidhuber]] | * [[Jurgen Schmidhuber|Jürgen Schmidhuber]] | ||
* [[Sepp Hochreiter|Sepp Hochreiter]] | |||
* [[Fei-Fei Li|Fei-Fei Li]] | * [[Fei-Fei Li|Fei-Fei Li]] | ||
* [[Alex Krizhevsky|Alex Krizhevsky]] | |||
* [[Andrej Karpathy|Andrej Karpathy]] | * [[Andrej Karpathy|Andrej Karpathy]] | ||
* [[Regina Barzilay|Regina Barzilay]] | * [[Regina Barzilay|Regina Barzilay]] | ||
* [[Ian Goodfellow|Ian Goodfellow]] | |||
* [[Diederik Kingma|Diederik Kingma]] | |||
* [[Max Welling|Max Welling]] | |||
* [[Kaiming He|Kaiming He]] | |||
* [[Dzmitry Bahdanau|Dzmitry Bahdanau]] | |||
* [[Kyunghyun Cho|Kyunghyun Cho]] | |||
* [[Jascha Sohl-Dickstein|Jascha Sohl-Dickstein]] | |||
* [[Jonathan Ho|Jonathan Ho]] | |||
* The eight co-authors of the 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need", which introduced the [[Transformer (AI architecture)|Transformer]]: | |||
** [[Ashish Vaswani|Ashish Vaswani]] | |||
** [[Noam Shazeer|Noam Shazeer]] | |||
** [[Niki Parmar|Niki Parmar]] | |||
** [[Jakob Uszkoreit|Jakob Uszkoreit]] | |||
** [[Llion Jones|Llion Jones]] | |||
** [[Aidan Gomez|Aidan Gomez]] | |||
** [[Łukasz Kaiser|Łukasz Kaiser]] | |||
** [[Illia Polosukhin|Illia Polosukhin]] | |||
=== Contemporary industry leaders === | === Systems, hardware and robotics === | ||
* [[Jensen Huang|Jensen Huang]] | |||
* [[Jim Keller|Jim Keller]] | |||
* [[David Patterson|David Patterson]] | |||
* [[Marc Raibert|Marc Raibert]] | |||
* [[Rodney Brooks|Rodney Brooks]] | |||
=== Contemporary research and industry leaders === | |||
* [[Ilya Sutskever|Ilya Sutskever]] | * [[Ilya Sutskever|Ilya Sutskever]] | ||
* [[Demis Hassabis|Demis Hassabis]] | * [[Demis Hassabis|Demis Hassabis]] | ||
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* [[Sam Altman|Sam Altman]] | * [[Sam Altman|Sam Altman]] | ||
* [[Daphne Koller|Daphne Koller]] | * [[Daphne Koller|Daphne Koller]] | ||
* [[Percy Liang|Percy Liang]] | |||
* [[Yejin Choi|Yejin Choi]] | |||
* [[Noam Brown|Noam Brown]] | |||
* [[Tri Dao|Tri Dao]] | |||
* [[Arthur Mensch|Arthur Mensch]] | |||
* [[Clément Delangue|Clément Delangue]] | |||
=== Critics, ethics and | === Critics, ethics, policy and alignment voices === | ||
* [[Emily M. Bender|Emily M. Bender]] | * [[Emily M. Bender|Emily M. Bender]] | ||
* [[Timnit Gebru|Timnit Gebru]] | * [[Timnit Gebru|Timnit Gebru]] | ||
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* [[Latanya Sweeney|Latanya Sweeney]] | * [[Latanya Sweeney|Latanya Sweeney]] | ||
* [[Cynthia Rudin|Cynthia Rudin]] | * [[Cynthia Rudin|Cynthia Rudin]] | ||
* [[Shoshana Zuboff|Shoshana Zuboff]] | |||
* [[Abeba Birhane|Abeba Birhane]] | |||
* [[Meredith Whittaker|Meredith Whittaker]] | |||
* [[Nick Bostrom|Nick Bostrom]] | |||
* [[Eliezer Yudkowsky|Eliezer Yudkowsky]] | |||
* [[Paul Christiano|Paul Christiano]] | |||
* [[Gary Marcus|Gary Marcus]] | |||
* [[Max Tegmark|Max Tegmark]] | |||
[[Category:Glossary]] | [[Category:Glossary]] | ||
[[Category:People]] | [[Category:People]] | ||
[[Category:Artificial Intelligence]] | [[Category:Artificial Intelligence]] | ||
Revision as of 17:41, 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 who study AI's 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
- Nick Bostrom
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Paul Christiano
- Gary Marcus
- Max Tegmark