Original News Article: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai-2024/
Top 100 People in AI
- Geoffrey Hinton – Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto; known as “The Godfather of AI.”
- Yann LeCun – Chief AI Scientist at Meta and a pioneer in convolutional neural networks.
- Yoshua Bengio – Co-founder of Element AI and a leading researcher in deep learning.
- Andrew Ng – Co-founder of Coursera and former head of Google Brain.
- Demis Hassabis – CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, known for AlphaGo and AI research.
- Fei-Fei Li – Co-director of Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute, a leader in computer vision.
- Sam Altman – CEO of OpenAI, overseeing the development of GPT models.
- Ilya Sutskever – Co-founder and Chief Scientist at OpenAI, key figure in deep learning research.
- Elon Musk – Co-founder of OpenAI and Neuralink, advocate for AI safety.
- Daphne Koller – Co-founder of Coursera and CEO of Insitro, applying AI to drug discovery.
- Kai-Fu Lee – AI investor and author, founder of Sinovation Ventures.
- Ray Kurzweil – Futurist, Director of Engineering at Google, known for his work on AI and transhumanism.
- Jeff Dean – Head of Google AI and a leader in AI and machine learning.
- Timnit Gebru – Co-founder of DAIR, known for her work on ethics in AI.
- Joy Buolamwini – Founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, an advocate for fairness in AI.
- Ian Goodfellow – Inventor of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), currently at DeepMind.
- Hanna Wallach – Research Scientist at Microsoft Research, focuses on fairness and transparency.
- Chris Bishop – Laboratory Director at Microsoft Research, a leading researcher in machine learning.
- Rana el Kaliouby – Co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, expert in AI emotion recognition.
- Pedro Domingos – Professor at University of Washington and author of “The Master Algorithm.”
- Jennifer Chayes – Managing Director at Microsoft Research, focuses on AI ethics and fairness.
- Anima Anandkumar – Director of Machine Learning Research at NVIDIA, focuses on AI and deep learning.
- Richard Socher – Founder of You.com and former Chief Scientist at Salesforce.
- Sebastian Thrun – Founder of Udacity and Google X, pioneer in self-driving cars.
- Jürgen Schmidhuber – Co-founder of NNAISENSE and a key figure in deep learning.
- Yoshua Bengio – Co-recipient of the Turing Award for work in deep learning.
- Fei-Fei Li – Advocate for ethical AI and co-founder of AI4ALL.
- Gary Marcus – Cognitive scientist and critic of current deep learning trends.
- Ruslan Salakhutdinov – Director of AI Research at Apple.
- Pieter Abbeel – Co-founder of Covariant and Professor at UC Berkeley, focuses on AI and robotics.
- Oren Etzioni – CEO of the Allen Institute for AI.
- Sergey Levine – Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, focuses on AI and robotics.
- Jeff Hawkins – Co-founder of Numenta, focuses on AI and neuroscience.
- Ben Goertzel – CEO of SingularityNET and pioneer in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
- Yoshua Bengio – Co-founder of Mila (Quebec AI Institute).
- Andrew Moore – Former Head of Google Cloud AI and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Neil Lawrence – Professor at University of Cambridge, expert in machine learning.
- Kate Crawford – Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, focuses on AI ethics.
- Cynthia Rudin – Professor at Duke University, works on interpretable machine learning.
- Abeba Birhane – Cognitive scientist and AI ethics researcher.
- Mireille Hildebrandt – Professor of law, focuses on AI and its implications for legal systems.
- Zoubin Ghahramani – Chief Scientist at Uber, Professor at the University of Cambridge.
- Shivon Zilis – Partner at Bloomberg Beta, focuses on AI investments.
- Ian Hogarth – Co-author of the “State of AI” report and investor.
- Susan Athey – Professor at Stanford University, focuses on the economics of AI.
- Manuela Veloso – Head of AI Research at JPMorgan Chase and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Timnit Gebru – Former Co-lead of the Ethical AI Team at Google.
- Alicia Asín – CEO of Libelium, focuses on AI and IoT.
- Alex Smola – Vice President of AWS Machine Learning.
- Maja Matarić – Professor at USC, focuses on AI and robotics.
- Yoshua Bengio – Advocates for socially responsible AI research.
- Rediet Abebe – Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, focuses on AI for social good.
- Dario Amodei – CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, an AI research lab.
- Pieter Abbeel – Co-founder of Covariant, expert in AI and robotics.
- Amir Banifatemi – General Manager for Innovation and Growth at XPRIZE.
- Stuart Russell – Professor at UC Berkeley, advocate for AI safety.
- Martha White – Associate Professor at University of Alberta, focuses on reinforcement learning.
- David Ferrucci – CEO of Elemental Cognition and principal investigator of IBM Watson.
- Zara Rahman – Researcher focused on the impact of AI on marginalized communities.
- Ajay Agrawal – Co-founder of the Creative Destruction Lab, focuses on the economics of AI.
- Richard Socher – Founder of You.com, a former Chief Scientist at Salesforce.
- Emmanuel Mogenet – Former Head of Google Research Europe, focuses on AI in healthcare.
- Raia Hadsell – Director of Robotics at DeepMind.
- Chelsea Finn – Assistant Professor at Stanford University, expert in AI and robotics.
- Jon Kleinberg – Professor at Cornell University, works on algorithms and AI ethics.
- Michael Jordan – Professor at UC Berkeley, one of the leading experts in machine learning.
- Meredith Whittaker – Co-founder of the AI Now Institute, advocate for AI ethics.
- Karen Hao – Senior AI Editor at MIT Technology Review, focuses on AI ethics.
- Max Tegmark – Professor at MIT and advocate for AI safety.
- Kate Crawford – Author of “Atlas of AI,” focuses on the social implications of AI.
- Chris Olah – Co-founder of Anthropic and advocate for AI interpretability.
- Garry Kasparov – Chess Grandmaster and AI commentator, advocates for human-AI collaboration.
- Lila Ibrahim – COO at DeepMind, focuses on AI research and ethics.
- Anthony Goldbloom – CEO and co-founder of Kaggle, a platform for data science competitions.
- Nando de Freitas – Principal Scientist at DeepMind.
- Sanja Fidler – Director of AI at NVIDIA and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto.
- David Silver – Principal Research Scientist at DeepMind, developed AlphaGo.
- Dina Katabi – Professor at MIT and expert in AI applications in healthcare.
- Francesca Rossi – AI Ethics Global Leader at IBM.
- Pushmeet Kohli – Head of AI Research at DeepMind.
- Rashida Richardson – Assistant Professor of Law, focuses on AI and social justice.
- Joi Ito – Former Director of the MIT Media Lab, focuses on ethics in AI.
- Erik Brynjolfsson – Professor at Stanford and advocate for human-centered AI.
- Fei-Fei Li – Leader in promoting diversity and ethics in AI research.
- Oren Etzioni – Founder of the Allen Institute for AI, focuses on AI ethics.
- Michael Bronstein – Professor at Imperial College London, focuses on AI for healthcare.
- David Gunning – Director of Explainable AI at DARPA.
- Yejin Choi – Professor at University of Washington, focuses on AI and language.
- Daphne Koller – CEO of Insitro, integrating AI with biology.
- Jacob Andreas – Assistant Professor at MIT, focuses on natural language processing.
- Daniel Kahneman – Nobel laureate, explores the intersection of AI and psychology.
- Mireille Hildebrandt – Legal scholar focused on AI and its legal implications.
- . Barbara Grosz – AI pioneer, focuses on collaborative AI systems.
- Shakir Mohamed – Research Scientist at DeepMind, advocates for ethics in AI.
- Ian Hogarth – Co-author of the “State of AI” report and an angel investor.
- Isabelle Guyon – Professor at Université Paris-Saclay, expert in AI and machine learning.
- Munther Dahleh – Director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at MIT.
- Virginia Dignum – Professor at Umeå University, focuses on responsible AI.
- Joelle Pineau – Co-Managing Director of Facebook AI Research (FAIR).
- Rumman Chowdhury – Director of Machine Learning Ethics at Twitter, focuses on ethical AI deployment.
This list reflects a diverse range of experts from different fields within AI, from deep learning and machine learning to AI ethics, policy, and applications. Each person has made significant contributions to advancing the field of artificial intelligence.ransform our world.