Yoshua Bengio
AI researcher mentioned as one of the leading experts concerned about AI safety.
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An AI Expert Warning: 6 People Are (Quietly) Deciding Humanity’s Future!
The Diary Of A CEO
AI researcher mentioned as one of the leading experts concerned about AI safety.

Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #212
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His idea of the 'consciousness prior' and how our model of the world can be described through an energy function, minimizing contradictions, is referenced.

François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #38
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A pioneer in deep learning who stuck with neural network research despite early skepticism, proving its value by its effectiveness.

Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #74
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World-class researcher in AI, mentored by Michael I. Jordan.

Eric Schmidt: Google | Lex Fridman Podcast #8
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Expert whose views on AI do not align with those emphasizing existential threats like Elon Musk.

Deep Learning State of the Art (2020)
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Co-recipient of the Turing Award for deep learning, co-authored a fundamental book on deep learning.

Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) | Lex Fridman Podcast #19
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One of Ian Goodfellow's PhD advisors at the University of Montreal.

Sophia is not AGI (Ben Goertzel) | AI Podcast Clips with Lex Fridman
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AI researcher contrasted with Yan LeCun; considered a 'super nice guy' who does not trash others' work.

Steve Jurvetson Interview | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
A leading researcher in AI and deep learning, mentioned as one of the key figures from the 'Canada group' contributing to deep learning R&D.

Foundations of Deep Learning (Hugo Larochelle, Twitter)
Lex Fridman
Co-author of a paper on weight initialization for tanh activations.

Regulating Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation with Yoshua Bengio and Scott Wiener(Episode #379)
Sam Harris
Leading AI researcher, Turing Award winner, and professor at the University of Montreal, who discusses AI safety concerns.

Deep Learning for Speech Recognition (Adam Coates, Baidu)
Lex Fridman
A researcher whose team has done work on various curriculum learning strategies, which are helpful for training deep neural networks.

Theano Tutorial (Pascal Lamblin, MILA)
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A researcher whose work is cited for initializing weights in convolutional layers.

Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #61
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An AI researcher who agrees with Melanie Mitchell that human cognitive biases are linked to learning, but emphasizes that value alignment is a problem even before hypothetical superintelligence, citing powerful companies.