2024 TIME100 AI cover (Credit: TIME)
Time magazine has unveiled its second edition of TIME100 AI, a list highlighting the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence, and U of T Department of Computer Science alumni are among those recognized.
The 2024 TIME100 AI issue is categorized by leaders, innovators, thinkers and shapers who are influencing today’s AI landscape.
Alumnus Ilya Sutskever (HBSc 2005, MSc 2007, PhD 2013) is a co-founder and former chief scientist of OpenAI. After announcing his departure from OpenAI in May, Sutskever started a new AI company, Safe Superintelligence. Time reports, “Safe Superintelligence is at least the third AI company—after OpenAI and Anthropic—to be founded by industry insiders on the belief that they could build superintelligent AI more safely than their irresponsible competitors.” Sutskever was also named to the inaugural TIME100 AI list in 2023.
Alumnus Andrej Karpathy (HBSc 2009) is a founding member and former research scientist at OpenAI and formerly the Senior Director of AI at Tesla. Time notes Karpathy’s “name is strewn across the history of modern AI” and that “his biggest impact on the world, however, may come not from his research but from his role as one of the world’s foremost educators on neural networks.” The publication outlines Kaparthy’s work alongside Professor Fei-Fei Li, designing Stanford University’s first course dedicated to deep-learning, for which he was the primary instructor and that videos of his lectures have been viewed over 800,000 times. Time adds that “his latest venture, Eureka Labs, founded July 2024, aims to build a school that is ‘AI native.’ Its first product will be an undergraduate-level course on AI, designed by a human and guided by an AI teaching assistant.”
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