- Published on December 24, 2024
- In AI Trends
AI Personalities Who Sparked Controversy in 2024
Scarlett Johansson publicly expressed her frustration after discovering that OpenAI had created a voice for its chatbot that she felt resembled hers too closely.
- By Siddharth Jindal
While 2024 has been a year of progress, it has also been a hotbed of bold claims and heated controversies within the world of AI. This article looks back at the most controversial figures in AI in 2024 – individuals who stirred debates, challenged norms and redefined what AI can and should do.
Jürgen Schmidhuber
German computer scientist Jürgen Schmidhuber, known for his work on recurrent neural networks, has often argued that he and other researchers have not received adequate recognition for their contributions to deep learning. Instead, he claimed, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio have received disproportionate credit.
Most recently, he alleged that Hinton’s Nobel Prize is based on uncredited work. Schmidhuber alleged that Hinton and Hopfield’s contributio
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Siddharth Jindal
Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.
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