Curated playlist
Machine learning researchers
- Jan LeikeJan Leike resigned from OpenAI in May 2024 and explained why in a public letter.
- 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?
- Demis HassabisDemis Hassabis changed one letter to turn a Greek word for butcher into his surname. He later won a Nobel Prize.
- Jürgen SchmidhuberAI researchers coined the verb "schmidhubered" for Jürgen Schmidhuber's habit of contesting credit.
- Yann LeCunYann LeCun spent a postdoc year under Geoffrey Hinton, then shared a Turing Award with him.
- 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.
- Ray KurzweilRay Kurzweil's team built a machine that read printed pages aloud for blind people. It was unveiled in January 1976.
- Judea PearlJudea Pearl gave computers a way to reason when facts are incomplete.
- Karl SteinbuchKarl Steinbuch helped invent the German word for computer science. He later became a bestselling right-wing author.
- Seppo LinnainmaaSeppo Linnainmaa wrote the first published description of backpropagation, though not its first use.