Curated playlist
Artificial intelligence people
- Jan LeikeJan Leike resigned from OpenAI in May 2024 and explained why in a public letter.
- John SchulmanJohn Schulman's first big project, a BattleBots robot, was never built. The reading it inspired led him to OpenAI.
- Elon MuskIn 2001, Elon Musk traveled to Moscow twice to buy missiles, hoping to launch a plant greenhouse to Mars.
- Daniela AmodeiDaniela Amodei started college on a classical flute scholarship. She now leads Anthropic as its president.
- Ilya SutskeverIlya Sutskever, a computer scientist born in 1986, wrote a short message in 2022 that set off a public argument. It read: "it may be that today's large neural networks are slightly conscious." Few researchers could post a line like that…
- Yoshua BengioWhy has Yoshua Bengio, who helped build modern AI, spent recent years trying to slow it down?
- Yann LeCunYann LeCun spent a postdoc year under Geoffrey Hinton, then shared a Turing Award with him.
- Demis HassabisDemis Hassabis changed one letter to turn a Greek word for butcher into his surname. He later won a Nobel Prize.
- Jensen HuangJensen Huang founded Nvidia in a Denny's booth, where he once worked as a dishwasher. Three engineers pooled $600.
- Andrew NgA neural network taught itself to recognize cats from YouTube videos. Andrew Ng cofounded Google Brain.
- Geoffrey HintonGeoffrey Hinton left Google in May 2023 to warn the world about AI. He had helped build the field for decades.
- Sam AltmanSam Altman was fired as OpenAI's CEO in November 2023. Most of the staff threatened to quit, and he returned.
- Dario AmodeiOpenAI's board once asked Dario Amodei to replace Sam Altman as its chief executive. He turned it down.