The minds behind AI

AI Legends

The minds that created artificial intelligence, told simply: their big breakthrough, their story, and why they matter. Understanding where AI comes from helps you use it better, and here I tell it to you with no need to know math or research. A new legend every day, and soon several with their own video on the channel.

Jürgen Schmidhuber
Researcher · IDSIA / KAUST

Jürgen Schmidhuber

The father of long memory

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Claude Shannon
Mathematician and engineer · Bell Labs / MIT

Claude Shannon

The father of information theory

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Judea Pearl
Computer Scientist · University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Judea Pearl

The father of causality in AI

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Andrej Karpathy
Researcher and Engineer · OpenAI / Tesla / Anthropic

Andrej Karpathy

The teacher who shows you how AI works on the inside

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John McCarthy
Mathematician and computer scientist · MIT / Stanford

John McCarthy

The man who named artificial intelligence

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Alan Turing
Mathematician · University of Cambridge / Bletchley Park

Alan Turing

The father of artificial intelligence

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Ian Goodfellow
Researcher · Google Brain / Apple / Google DeepMind

Ian Goodfellow

The father of networks that imagine things

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Dario Amodei
CEO and co-founder · Anthropic

Dario Amodei

The architect of responsible AI

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Demis Hassabis
Co-founder and CEO · DeepMind / Google

Demis Hassabis

Solve intelligence, then solve everything

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Andrew Ng
Researcher and educator · Stanford / DeepLearning.AI

Andrew Ng

The teacher who democratized AI

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Ilya Sutskever
Scientist · OpenAI / Safe Superintelligence

Ilya Sutskever

The mind that scaled AI

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Fei-Fei Li
Researcher · Stanford / Google Cloud / Stanford HAI

Fei-Fei Li

The godmother of computer vision

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Yoshua Bengio
Researcher · Université de Montréal / Mila

Yoshua Bengio

The architect of deep language

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Yann LeCun
Researcher · Meta AI / NYU

Yann LeCun

The architect of computer vision

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Geoffrey Hinton
Researcher · University of Toronto / Google

Geoffrey Hinton

The godfather of deep learning

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