Curated playlist
American artificial intelligence researchers
- Paul WerbosPaul Werbos, a social scientist, first formally described backpropagation in his 1974 dissertation.
- John SchulmanJohn Schulman's first big project, a BattleBots robot, was never built. The reading it inspired led him to OpenAI.
- Eliezer YudkowskyA 2023 Time op-ed by Eliezer Yudkowsky reached the White House press briefing room.
- Marvin MinskyIn 1951, Marvin Minsky built the first randomly wired neural network learning machine. He called it SNARC.
- Arthur Samuel (computer scientist)Arthur Samuel's checkers program moved IBM's stock up 15 points in a single night. He coined "machine learning" in 1959.
- Terry WinogradTerry Winograd once taught a computer to obey commands about toy blocks.
- Andrew NgA neural network taught itself to recognize cats from YouTube videos. Andrew Ng cofounded Google Brain.
- Ray KurzweilRay Kurzweil's team built a machine that read printed pages aloud for blind people. It was unveiled in January 1976.
- Ray SolomonoffRay Solomonoff's idea was matched by a Russian mathematician five years later, and the Russian got the credit.
- John McCarthy (computer scientist)John McCarthy coined the term "artificial intelligence" in the summer of 1956. He also created the language Lisp.
- Frank RosenblattA 1969 book led many to wrongly think Rosenblatt's learning machines were fatally limited.