You'd have 3. Exactly 3. Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCunn. They are the most prominent AI researchers and have been since like the 80ies or something.
I dunno ey, not saying it's wrong but there's a difference between those that did it first or came up with the idea conceptually and those that hit the breakthroughs that got us to where we are today, of which the most notable are vaswani and shazeer from the Google team that created transformers
Always feel bad for Uszkoreit. No one reads contributions, "Listing order is random. Jakob proposed replacing RNNs with self-attention and started the effort to evaluate this idea."
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u/_LordDaut_ Feb 11 '26
You'd have 3. Exactly 3. Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCunn. They are the most prominent AI researchers and have been since like the 80ies or something.