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 Reinforced Learning?
Donald Michie
1961
Who invented Deep Learning?
Alexey G. Ivakhnenko
1965
Who invented Hopfield Networks?
John Hopfield (Nobel Prize & Turing Award)
1982
Who invented RNNs?
David Rumelhart
1986
Who invented LSTM?
Sepp Hochreiter and Jürgen Schmidhuber
1986
Who invented CNNs?
Yann LeCun (Turing Award)
1990s
Who invented "AlexNet"?
Ilya Sutskever, Alex Krizhevsky, Geoffrey Hinton (Nobel Prize & Turing Award)
2012
Who invented GANs?
Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio (Turing Award)
2014
Who invented "Transformers" in AI?
Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin.
2017
