From: aidotengineer
In a survey of 100 AI engineers conducted for “Frontier Feud,” participants were asked to name the most influential AI researchers [00:07:51]. While not all guesses made it onto the top eight answers, the discussion highlighted several prominent figures in the field.
Surveyed Influential AI Researchers
The top eight answers from the survey for “most influential AI researcher” included:
- Jeff Hinton [00:06:40]
- Yann LeCun [00:07:25]
- Andrew Ng [00:09:09]
- Fei-Fei Li [00:09:13]
- Yoshua Bengio [00:09:19]
Other Researchers Mentioned
Several other influential figures were guessed by contestants, though they did not appear in the top eight survey answers:
- Ilya Sutskever [00:05:39]
- Andre Switzer [00:06:15]
- The lead author on the Transformer paper [00:06:49] (referencing the paper “Attention Is All You Need,” which was cited as the most influential AI paper in history [00:17:49], [00:19:56], [00:20:48]).
- Sam Altman [00:07:53]
- Jeff Dean [00:08:44]
This survey is part of a larger, more in-depth survey on the State of AI Engineering, which will be presented at the June AI Engineer World Fair [00:21:42].