Three of the "godfathers of AI" helped spark the revolution that's making its way through the tech industry — and all of society. They are, from left, Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yoshua Bengio.
The New York Times' profile of "who's who" in AI features twelve men, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates.
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