It's Known as ‘The List'—and It's a Secret File of AI Geniuses
All over Silicon Valley, the brightest minds in AI are buzzing about 'The List,' a compilation of the most talented engineers and researchers in artificial intelligence that Mark Zuckerberg has spent months putting together.
Lucas Beyer works in multimodal vision-language research and describes himself as 'a scientist dedicated to the creation of awesomeness.' Yu Zhang specializes in automatic speech recognition and barely has an online presence besides his influential papers. Misha Bilenko is an expert in large-scale machine learning who also enjoys hiking and skiing—or, as he puts it on his website, 'applying hill-climbing search and gradient descent algorithms to real-world domains.'
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