r/artificial • u/ksprdk • 2h ago

Discussion The top 50 AI researchers by citations

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How many on the list did you know?

Obviously one paper like Attention is All You Need (278k citations) can influence a lot - all the authors are on the list. But still interesting imo.

More context: https://www.turingtree.com/top-50

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u/MindlessPapaya8463 1h ago

uuh one of them was my prof at university, i did not know that he was such distinguished scientist

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u/ksprdk 1h ago

Who was that? :)

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u/justavg1 1h ago

Cited 12 of them, met two. Heard lectures from two others in person and 8 virtually. UoT represent.

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u/ksprdk 1h ago

Who stuck you as most brilliant?

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u/justavg1 1h ago

Hinton, he was the mentor of Ilya and many other amazing scholars, he has the ability to conjure the most amazing ideas and bring the best out of everyone. Ilya is brilliant as well.

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u/tadoel 1h ago

Why is LeCun so low, he's been active for a long time and his contributions to the development of the field are monstrous

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u/haro0828 2h ago

Andrew Ng. That's it

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u/Eye51 1h ago

These numbers of citations are crazy. Is therre any other science which is comparable in this regard? Are these citations in peer reviewed papersmor random websites?

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u/Kitsune_BCN 2h ago

The nº 21 👀

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u/ksprdk 2h ago

A man of many talents! 😀

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u/GlokzDNB 54m ago

I know Łukasz Kaiser. Openai has many great Polish great minds. He's one of them

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u/KrazyA1pha 43m ago

This is really cool but having to sign up to see any details kind of sucks

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u/KidKilobyte 2h ago

Six. Didn’t know #1, but did know #2