In today’s world of artificial intelligence, some are working extremely hard to push the envelope and create the advanced world we live in. These influencers are contributing greatly to technology innovation, with incredible brains to see something and imagine what it could be instead of just settling on our current state of being.
A Co-Publisher of The Financial Brand and Owner/Publisher of the Digital Banking Report.
A Research Engineer at Facebook AI Research, works on cutting-edge deep learning research and tooling, with major contributions to the Torch deep learning framework which is used by the major players in the A.I. Industry.
A co-founder of Google Brain, a former VP & Chief Scientist at Baidu, professor and Director of the AI Lab at Stanford University, co-founder of Coursera. In 2017 he founded a venture fund for supporting AI startups and raised more than $175 million.
We need a Goldilocks Rule for AI:
- Too optimistic: Deep learning gives us a clear path to AGI!
- Too pessimistic: DL has limitations, thus here's the AI winter!
- Just right: DL can’t do everything, but will improve countless lives & create massive economic growth.
A transdisciplinary researcher on the structure and dynamics of human- and animal-like intelligence. She is presently a member of the College of the British Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and serves as a member of the editorial board for several academic journals.
Igor Ashmanov
Russian entrepreneur specializing in information technology, artificial intelligence, software development, project management. Founded the companies “Nanosemantics” (creating chatbots) and “Lexy” (home virtual assistant). Actively supports the SOVA project that develops a platform for creating virtual assistants.
Jana Eggers
A math and computer nerd, CEO of Nara Logics, a neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence company providing a platform for recommendations and decision support.
Mariya Yao
The Chief Technology & Product Officer at Metamaven, a company that helps businesses identify new markets, improve conversions, increase revenues, and reduce churn. She’s also a co-author of the bestselling book, Applied AI: A Handbook For Business Leaders.
Demis Hassabis
A British artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist, video game designer, entrepreneur, and world-class games player. In 2010, he co-founded DeepMind and in 2014, Google purchased the company for £400 million.
Greg Brockman
Launched online payments platform Strip; along with Elon Musk, Y Combinator’s Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever, cofounded nonprofit AI research organization OpenAI.
Jeff Kagan
One of the most frequently quoted industry analysts in the world. Over the last 30 years Jeff Kagan follows and comments on communications technology companies and hot industry topics. He works as an industry analyst and consultant.
Fei-Fei Li
The director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) and the Stanford Vision Lab. In 2017, she co-founded AI4ALL, a nonprofit working to increase diversity and inclusion in artificial intelligence.
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