Prominent AI Researchers

Comments frequently reference and link to leading AI figures like Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Andrej Karpathy, and others, discussing their contributions, predictions, tweets, and roles in AI advancements or debates.

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Sample Comments

offnominal Aug 25, 2025 View on HN

The OpenAI employee posting this is a well known theoretical computer scientist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien_Bubeck

cwp May 5, 2023 View on HN

According to the article, it's a random AI researcher at Google, so fairly relevant.

ec664 May 1, 2023 View on HN

See his response on twitter. https://twitter.com/geoffreyhinton/status/165299357072121037...

1oooqooq Sep 12, 2024 View on HN

Interesting how he hype the recent ai advancements but fails to mention his own employees most famous contribution. Easy to see why investors didn't want them as leaders

llimllib Mar 20, 2017 View on HN

Michael Nielsen: https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/84386992317667328...(follow the thread)

xoher Oct 27, 2016 View on HN

I'm surprised no one has posted about Andrej Karpathy.http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/

archo Jul 23, 2023 View on HN

-- Duplicate --Transformers: The Google scientists who pioneered an AI revolution.HN: Discussion - (7-comments - 2023-07-23) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36832797

convexstrictly Nov 18, 2023 View on HN

You're right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Brockman

23B1 May 22, 2024 View on HN

Yann LeCun is the Paul Krugman of AI

danbmil99 May 24, 2024 View on HN

Wasn't Geoffrey Hinton going on about this about a year ago?