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.
Alan Turing
The father of artificial intelligence
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Geoffrey Hinton
The godfather of deep learning
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John McCarthy
The man who named artificial intelligence
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Yann LeCun
The architect of computer vision
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Yoshua Bengio
The architect of deep language
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Claude Shannon
The father of information theory
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Demis Hassabis
Solve intelligence, then solve everything
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Marvin Minsky
The architect of the artificial mind
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Ilya Sutskever
The mind that scaled AI
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Fei-Fei Li
The godmother of computer vision
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Ashish Vaswani
The man who taught AI to pay attention
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Richard S. Sutton
The father of reinforcement learning
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Judea Pearl
The father of causality in AI
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John Hopfield
The physicist who taught the network to remember
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Ada Lovelace
The world's first computer programmer
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Sam Altman
The man who opened the door to AI
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Alex Krizhevsky
The young man who ignited the deep learning revolution
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Herbert Simon
The man who taught machines to think (and economists too)
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Frank Rosenblatt
The man who taught a machine to learn
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Jensen Huang
The man who put the engine in AI
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Andrew Ng
The teacher who democratized AI
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Noam Shazeer
The architect of the Transformer
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Dario Amodei
The architect of responsible AI
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Allen Newell
The architect who taught machines to reason
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David Rumelhart
The man who taught machines to learn
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Jürgen Schmidhuber
The father of long memory
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Alec Radford
The quiet architect of pre-training
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Warren McCulloch
The father of the artificial neuron
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Ian Goodfellow
The father of networks that imagine things
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Vladimir Vapnik
The father of machines that learn to classify
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David Silver
The man who taught AI to master Go
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Andrew Barto
The architect of reinforcement learning
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Norbert Wiener
The father of cybernetics
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Andrej Karpathy
The teacher who shows you how AI works on the inside
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Kaiming He
The father of networks that skip forgetting
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Jeff Dean
The engineer who scaled Google's AI
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Leslie Valiant
The mathematician who taught machines how to learn
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Stuart Russell
The guardian who put limits on AI
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Peter Norvig
The teacher who wrote the book on AI
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Arthur Samuel
The man who coined 'machine learning'
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Alex Graves
The man who gave machines their voice
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Diederik Kingma
The architect behind every generative AI
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Michael I. Jordan
The architect of statistical learning
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John Schulman
The architect of human reinforcement learning
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Mustafa Suleyman
The architect who built applied AI
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Oriol Vinyals
The architect of the language machines learned to translate
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Tomas Mikolov
The man who taught machines to understand words
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Terry Sejnowski
The bridge between brain and machine
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Greg Brockman
The builder who made real AI possible
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Quoc Le
The pioneer who taught AI to translate and design itself
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Kyunghyun Cho
The man who taught AI to pay attention
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Mira Murati
The architect who took AI out of the lab
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Sebastian Thrun
The pioneer who taught cars to drive themselves
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Joseph Weizenbaum
The man who built the first chatbot and then warned us about it
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Soumith Chintala
The man who put hands on AI research
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Christopher Manning
The architect of language machines learned to read
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Daphne Koller
The woman who brought the university to the world
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Rodney Brooks
The man who taught robots to walk
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Ray Kurzweil
The prophet of the technological singularity
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François Chollet
The architect of generalizing intelligence
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Seymour Papert
The man who put a computer in a child's hands
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Ruslan Salakhutdinov
The scientist who imagined generative AI
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Tom Mitchell
The man who gave machine learning its textbook
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Pieter Abbeel
The Man Who Taught Robots to Learn by Watching
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Bernhard Schölkopf
The architect of machines that reason about why
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Nick Bostrom
The philosopher of existential risk
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Timnit Gebru
The scientist who told the truth about AI
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Max Welling
The architect who bridges physics and deep learning
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Terry Winograd
The man who taught machines to talk
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Rosalind Picard
The inventor who taught machines to feel
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Daniela Amodei
The architect who built responsible AI from the inside
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Christopher Olah
The man who wants to see inside AI
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Kai-Fu Lee
The architect of global AI
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Thomas Wolf
The man who gave AI to the world
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Chelsea Finn
The woman who taught AI to learn in seconds
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Percy Liang
The man who held a mirror up to AI
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Barbara Grosz
The pioneer who taught machines to follow a conversation
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Cynthia Breazeal
The woman who taught robots to smile
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Anima Anandkumar
The woman who taught AI to see in more dimensions
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Nando de Freitas
The professor who democratized deep learning
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Joëlle Pineau
The scientist who taught AI to reproduce itself
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Yejin Choi
The woman who taught AI common sense
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Margaret Mitchell
The scientist who put a name to AI's responsibility
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Max Tegmark
The physicist who dared ask: what if AI goes wrong?
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Kate Crawford
The woman who mapped AI's human cost
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Gary Marcus
The skeptic AI needed
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Emad Mostaque
The man who opened the image box
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