Who's Who
in AI
The SAFE AI Foundation Who's Who in AI is a list of inventors who have made significant advances to the field of AI. Without these inventions, there would be no AI, no AI products, no AI business, etc. We do not include AI business leaders or AI investors here. For Top AI voices, please refer to LINKEDIN.
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Who invented Neural Networks?
Warren McCulloch & Walter Pitts
1943
Who invented Perceptron?
Frank Rosenblatt
1957
Who invented Deep Learning?
Alexey G. Ivakhnenko
1965
Who invented NLP?
Allan Turing, Joseph Weizenbaum, Noam Chomsky
1966 - ELIZA Chatbot by Weizenbaum
Who invented Backward Propagation?
Paul Werbos (1974)
Paul 1974's PhD Thesis proposed using backpropagation to train neural networks
Who invented Hopfield Networks?
John Hopfield
1982
Who invented RNNs?
David Rumelhart
1986
Who invented LSTM?
Sepp Hochreiter and Jürgen Schmidhuber
1986
Who invented CNNs?
Kunihiko Fukushima
first CNN called Cognitron 1975, 1979
Yann LeCun
first trainable CNN, LeNet 1990s
Who invented "AlexNet"?
Ilya Sutskever, Alex Krizhevsky
2012
Who invented GANs for GenAI?
Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio
2014
Who invented Diffusion Model for GenAI?
Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
2015
Who invented "Transformers" in AI?
Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin.
2017
