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They are the leaders of a technological revolution that is advancing at a dizzying pace: artificial intelligence (AI). The American Sam Altman (OpenAI), the South African Elon Musk (xAI) and the Colombian Sandra Rivera (Intel) are part of the one hundred most influential people in the world of AI by “Time” magazine.
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“They are rivals and regulators, scientists and artists, advocates and executives, competing and cooperating human beings whose ideas, desires and failures will shape the direction of an increasingly influential technology.”, says Sam Jacobs, editor of this medium. Here are some of them.
CEO and President of Anthropic
The brothers run Anthropic, one of the world’s leading AI laboratories. Founded in 2021, the company has conducted pioneering “mechanical interpretability” research that aims to allow developers to do something analogous to a brain scan, notes “Time.” Its latest chatbot, Claude 2, is a rival to the popular ChatGPT, from the company OpenAI, where the Amode brothers – Dario, 40, and Daniela, 36 – previously worked.
Open AI CEO
Sam Altman, 38, is probably the most recognizable face of the AI revolution. Since OpenAI launched the ChatGPT chatbot in November 2021, its popularity has continued to grow. ChatGPT reached 100 million users in a month, something TikTok achieved in a year and Instagram in two. Despite fears, Altman says he believes there is no real danger to humanity and has already released GPT-4, the most powerful language model ever made available to the public.
CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind
DeepMind was founded in 2010 and acquired by Google in 2014. As the tech giant’s AI arm, DeepMind is developing a large language model (LLM) called Gemini and Demis Hassabis is a key player. “Our Gemini algorithm will eclipse ChatGPT,” said the 47-year-old Briton, a leading AI researcher who is also a neuroscientist, computer game designer and chess master.
Baidu CEO, President and Co-Founder
Software engineer Robin Li founded Baidu, a Google-like Chinese search engine, in 2000 and hasn’t stopped since. Baidu already has its own equivalent to Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant, dubbed Xiaodu, as well as fleets of driverless taxis operating in major cities in China, Time notes. Baidu in late August launched Ernie Bot, its own large language supermodel (LLM), which Li, 54, says outperforms ChatGPT on several key metrics.
CEO and co-founder of Hugging Face
Founded in 2016, Hugging Face has grown from a chatbot entertainment tool aimed at teens to the world’s most widely used open source platform for AI models, with 300,000 machine learning models and 250,000 datasets available. Delangue has become a leader of a community of technologists and technology creators using open source AI.
COO of Google DeepMind
Lila Ibrahim, 53, is responsible for operations, governance, ethics and communications at Google DeepMind. He leads the company’s work on critical issues involving the intersection of AI and society. In May, Ibrahim, who has worked in technology for more than 20 years, signed a statement with the founders of DeepMind that the risks of AI should be taken as seriously as the risks of pandemics and nuclear war.
Founder of xAI
In July, Elon Musk announced the launch of xAI, a new company focused on artificial intelligence. The xAI team is made up of renowned AI experts, including some from OpenAI, Google and Microsoft. Months earlier, Musk had announced that he planned to “create a third option” among AI heavyweights beyond Microsoft/OpenAI and Google. Musk warned that unconstrained AI “is potentially harmful to humans everywhere.”
CEO and founder of Waabi
The former chief scientist of Uber’s autonomous driving unit founded the autonomous truck start-up Waabi in 2021. Urtasun, a 47-year-old Spaniard, took advantage of advances in artificial intelligence to make driverless vehicle traffic possible. “Waabi is able to train its driverless software much faster and cheaper than its competitors, in part by driving virtual trucks in a highly realistic AI-generated simulation,” says “Time.”
Entrepreneur and investor
After working at Apple in the 1990s, billionaire and venture capital investor Reid Hoffman was a founding board member of Pay-Pal, co-founded LinkedIn and played a crucial role in the emergence of Facebook. This is how “Time” describes one of the first investors in OpenAI and who has invested millions of dollars in dozens of other AI companies. Hoffman, 56, called for faster adoption of AI, arguing that it will help humanity rather than harm it.
General Manager of Data Center and AI Group at Intel
The daughter of Colombian immigrants who grew up in New Jersey, Rivera is the only Latin American woman on Time’s list. He leads Intel’s push to be one of the largest makers of AI accelerator chips. Since she became head of Intel’s data center as well as its AI strategy and execution in 2021, she has overseen the deployment of its Gaudi AI accelerator chips.
Source: Elcomercio
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