The seventh chapter of Surfing the Tsunami discusses some of the prominent people in the AI space and their perspectives.
Andrew Ng is someone who helped launch the MOOC revolution (Massively Open Online Courses) through co-founding Coursera. He also helped create image recognition systems built on large neural networks that were trained with a huge amount of internet data.
Geoffrey Hinton is a cognitive psychologist and computer scientist who works for both Google and University of Toronto. He was one of the first to demonstrate the use of generalized backpropagation algorithm for training multi-layer neural nets and is still an active figure in the deep learning field.
Jim Spohrer is a computer scientist who is known for having led the development of service systems and was recently the Director of IBM Global University Programs Worldwide.
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