From Turing to Hassabis: A Visual History of the Pioneers Who Shaped AI
m3nt3_ · reddit · 2026-10-09
A Reddit user put together a visual overview of the researchers who shaped modern AI — from Alan Turing, John McCarthy, Frank Rosenblatt and Arthur Samuel, through Judea Pearl's work on probabilistic reasoning and causality, to deep learning pioneers Hinton, LeCun and Bengio, extending into reinforcement learning, computer vision and AI-driven scientific discovery.
The author notes it's a selective overview rather than a definitive ranking, the portraits are AI-generated illustrations, and invites discussion: who had the greatest impact, and who is missing?
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