The list also features Geoffrey Hinton, known as "the Godfather of AI" for his foundational work on the technology behind large language models; Shane Legg, a co-founder of Google DeepMind who is working on creating artificial general intelligence; Margaret Mitchell, a researcher and the chief ethics scientist at Hugging Face; and Safiya Noble, a professor and co-founder of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, who studies how race, class, and societal structures interact with the internet and other technologies. The list highlights the diverse views on how AI should be developed and the impact it has on society.
Key takeaways:
- Insider has compiled a list of 100 people at the forefront of artificial intelligence, spanning several industries from hardware to ethics.
- The list includes AI researchers like Timnit Gebru, who established the Distributed AI Research Institute, and Ali Alkhatib, who focuses on how society interacts with algorithms.
- Other notable figures include Emily Bender, a linguistics professor who has contributed to understanding how large language models process language, and Jack Clark, a co-founder of AI startup Anthropic.
- The list also features figures like Geoffrey Hinton, known as 'the Godfather of AI', and Shane Legg, a co-founder of Google DeepMind, who are working on the development of artificial general intelligence.