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Maclean’s ‘The Power List: AI’ recognizes U of T CS faculty and alumni

Department of Computer Science faculty and alumni are among a group of innovators in the artificial intelligence space recognized by Maclean’s for “training, regulating, pondering and monetizing the machines.” 

The Power List: AIis part of the magazine’s annual ‘Power List’ highlighting 100 Canadians shaping the country this year.    

Here’s a look at the Department of Computer Science community members named to ‘The Power List: AI’ for 2024: 

Faculty: 

  

Alumni 

  • Ilya Sutskever OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist 

    “For making sure smarter-than-human AI programs stick to our scripts” 

  • Ivan Zhang, Aidan Gomez and Nick FrosstCohere co-founders 

    “For providing OpenAI with some Canadian competition” 

  • Patricia ThainePrivate AI CEO and co-founder 

    “For trumpeting (and reducing) AI’s dangers” 

  • Mohammad NorouziIdeogram CEO and co-founder 

    “For making AI pictures look like the real thing” 

  

Read more at Maclean’s:  

The Power List: AI 

The Power List 2024