People Flashcards
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky is an American writer and researcher known for his work on artificial intelligence safety and the concept of technological singularity. He co-founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in 2000 to focus on ensuring beneficial AI development. Yudkowsky has written extensively on AI risks, human rationality, and decision-making, including popular works like “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.” While influential in AI safety and effective altruism circles, his ideas have also faced criticism and debate within the broader AI research community.
Paul Christiano
Paul Christiano is a prominent researcher in AI alignment and safety, known for his work on developing AI systems that behave in accordance with human values and intentions. He has proposed influential frameworks such as “Iterated Amplification” and “Debate” for training AI systems to be more aligned and interpretable. Christiano has worked at OpenAI and founded the Alignment Research Center, focusing on technical approaches to ensure advanced AI systems remain beneficial as they become more capable. His work has significantly influenced discussions and research directions in AI policy, emphasizing the importance of solving AI alignment to mitigate potential risks from advanced AI systems.
Carl Shulman
Carl Shulman is a researcher and writer known for his work on existential risk, particularly risks associated with advanced artificial intelligence. He has been affiliated with the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and the Future of Humanity Institute, contributing to research on AI safety and ethics. Shulman’s work often focuses on long-term forecasting, decision theory, and the potential impacts of transformative AI technologies on global stability and human welfare. His analyses and writings have influenced discussions in AI policy circles, emphasizing the importance of proactive measures to ensure the beneficial development of advanced AI systems.
Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist and pioneer in artificial intelligence, particularly deep learning, who is considered one of the “founding fathers” of the field alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun. As a professor at the Université de Montréal, founder of Mila, and recipient of numerous prestigious awards including the Turing Award, Bengio has made significant contributions to AI research and development, shaping the foundation of many modern AI technologies.
Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun is a prominent French computer scientist and AI pioneer, renowned for his groundbreaking work in deep learning, computer vision, and convolutional neural networks. As a professor at NYU, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, and recipient of the Turing Award, LeCun has made pivotal contributions to AI research, particularly in developing technologies for image and video recognition used in various applications today.
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton, often called the “Godfather of Deep Learning,” is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to artificial intelligence and deep learning. As a professor at the University of Toronto, a Vice President at Google, and a recipient of the Turing Award, Hinton’s groundbreaking work on neural networks and deep learning has been instrumental in advancing AI technologies used in various applications today.
Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng is a renowned computer scientist and entrepreneur who has made significant contributions to the field of artificial intelligence, particularly in machine learning and deep learning. As a co-founder of Coursera, former chief scientist at Baidu, and a professor at Stanford University, Ng has played a crucial role in both advancing AI research and democratizing AI education through his popular online courses and initiatives.
Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever is a prominent computer scientist and machine learning expert, known for his significant contributions to deep learning and artificial intelligence. As a co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI, and with his influential work on sequence-to-sequence learning, neural machine translation, and large language models, Sutskever has played a crucial role in advancing the field of AI and shaping some of its most impactful recent developments.
Sam Altman
Sam Altman is a prominent American entrepreneur and investor, best known as the CEO of OpenAI, a leading artificial intelligence research company. He previously served as the president of Y Combinator, a renowned startup accelerator, and has been instrumental in shaping the tech industry through his leadership roles, investments, and advocacy for responsible AI development.
Ajeya Cotra
Ajeya Cotra is a researcher and analyst known for her work on forecasting artificial intelligence progress and its potential impacts. As a Senior Research Analyst at Open Philanthropy, she has produced influential reports on AI timelines and transformative AI, contributing significantly to discussions about long-term AI development and safety.
Mustafa Suleyman
Mustafa Suleyman is a British entrepreneur and artificial intelligence researcher, best known as a co-founder of DeepMind, one of the world’s leading AI research companies. After leaving DeepMind, he co-founded Inflection AI and has been an influential voice in discussions about AI ethics, policy, and the responsible development of artificial intelligence technologies.
Stuart Russell
Stuart Russell is a British-American computer scientist and a leading authority in the field of artificial intelligence, best known for co-authoring the influential textbook “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.” As a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a prominent voice in AI ethics and safety, Russell has made significant contributions to AI research and has been instrumental in shaping discussions about the long-term impacts and responsible development of AI technologies.
Peter Norvig
Peter Norvig is a prominent American computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher, widely known for his influential work in AI and his co-authorship of the seminal textbook “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.” As a former Director of Research at Google and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Norvig has made significant contributions to the fields of AI, natural language processing, and machine learning, while also playing a key role in shaping AI education and research.
Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher and futurist, renowned for his work on existential risk, human enhancement, and the potential impacts of advanced artificial intelligence. As the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University and author of influential books like “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies,” Bostrom has played a crucial role in shaping discussions about the long-term future of humanity and the ethical considerations surrounding transformative technologies.
Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil is an American inventor, futurist, and author known for his predictions about technological progress and the concept of the technological singularity. As a pioneer in fields such as optical character recognition and text-to-speech synthesis, and through his roles at Google and as a prolific writer on future technologies, Kurzweil has significantly influenced discussions about the long-term impact of artificial intelligence and exponential technological growth on human society.
Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist, and entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, a leading AI research company. As a child chess prodigy turned AI visionary, Hassabis has been instrumental in advancing the field of artificial intelligence, particularly in areas such as deep learning and reinforcement learning, leading breakthrough achievements like AlphaGo and contributing significantly to the development of AI systems with human-level performance across various domains.
Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy is a prominent computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher, known for his significant contributions to deep learning, computer vision, and natural language processing. As the former Director of AI at Tesla and a key figure in the development of autonomous driving technologies, as well as through his influential educational content and open-source contributions, Karpathy has played a crucial role in advancing practical applications of AI and making complex machine learning concepts accessible to a wide audience.
Pedro Domingos
Pedro Domingos is a Portuguese-American computer scientist and professor at the University of Washington, renowned for his work in machine learning and data mining. As the author of “The Master Algorithm” and a pioneer in areas such as Markov logic networks and unifying different machine learning approaches, Domingos has made significant contributions to the field of AI, particularly in developing algorithms that can learn and reason with uncertainty.
Tom Davidson
Tom Davidson is a researcher and analyst at Open Philanthropy, primarily focused on forecasting artificial intelligence progress and its potential impacts. His work, which includes developing models to predict AI timelines and analyzing the implications of transformative AI, has contributed significantly to discussions about long-term AI development and has informed philanthropic strategies in the field of AI safety and governance.
Holden Karnofsky
Holden Karnofsky is a co-founder and co-CEO of Open Philanthropy, a major philanthropic organization focused on maximizing global welfare through strategic giving. Known for his work on effective altruism and longtermism, Karnofsky has been influential in shaping discussions about high-impact philanthropy, global catastrophic risks, and the long-term future of humanity, particularly in areas related to artificial intelligence and biosecurity.
Alan Turing
Alan Turing was a pioneering British mathematician, logician, and computer scientist who made foundational contributions to artificial intelligence, computer science, and cryptography. His work during World War II in breaking the Nazi Enigma code, his development of the Turing machine as a model of computation, and his formulation of the Turing test for machine intelligence have cemented his legacy as one of the most influential figures in the history of computing and artificial intelligence.
Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky was an American cognitive scientist and a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, co-founding the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His groundbreaking work on neural networks, theories of human and machine cognition, and contributions to the philosophical understanding of AI have profoundly influenced the development of artificial intelligence and earned him recognition as one of the founding fathers of the field.
Ray Solomonoff
Ray Solomonoff was a pioneering American mathematician and computer scientist known for his foundational work in algorithmic information theory and machine learning. His development of algorithmic probability and the theory of universal induction laid crucial groundwork for modern artificial intelligence, particularly in areas of prediction, inference, and data compression.
