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Personalities
Andrew Ng
Board Of Directors at drive.ai,
deeplearning.ai,
Co-Founder of Coursera,
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University,
Chief Scientist at Baidu, Inc.,
Founder and Lead of Google Brain (Deep Learning) project
Geoffrey Hinton
credited with backpropagation
researcher at University Toronto
first effecctive use of nn. Classifying pictures. Imagenet
Interviewed by Andrew Ng on youtube
Ian Goodfellow
Neuroscience
Deep belief net
Generative models
invented generative adversarial model (GAN)
Linear algebra
Probability
interviewed by Andrew Ng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWAc9B2zJS4
quote: “choosing deep learning as the best, because other systems, like support vector machines, don't seem to have the right asymptotics, that you add more training data and it gets slower. asymptotic analysis = a way of describing limits. performance analysis.
Denis Hassabis,
founder and CEO of DeepMind, sold to Google in
Yoshua Bengio
Director, Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA)
University of Montreal
Schmidhuber
Lecun
Jack Clark
Works at OpenAI. Writes the Import AI (https://jack-clark.net/about/) newsletter.
Alan Turing
Jack Clark
Others
- Dandelion Mane, engineer at Google working on tensorboard, part of the tensorflow stack
- Josh Tennembaum, MIT
- Fei Fei Li, Chief Scientist at Google Cloud and Machine Learning, previously at MIT
- Catherine olsson, openai, San Francisco