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: AI’ is 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:
Alán Aspuru-Guzik — Acceleration Consortium Director
“For using AI in myriad medical discoveries”
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 Frosst — Cohere co-founders
“For providing OpenAI with some Canadian competition”
Patricia Thaine — Private AI CEO and co-founder
“For trumpeting (and reducing) AI’s dangers”
Mohammad Norouzi — Ideogram CEO and co-founder
“For making AI pictures look like the real thing”
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