We've compiled a list of 10 leaders steering AI innovation you can follow to learn about the discipline

Humans are rarely the first thing that comes to mind when we think about artificial intelligence (AI). Because AI has become a crucial business tool, we frequently recognize the pioneering work of AI companies in assisting organizations as they grow digitally. But what about the employees who come up with and implement the innovations?  

1. Andrew Ng: Andrew Ng has a long history in the technology business, serving as Co-Founder and Head of Google Brain, former Chief Scientist at Baidu, where he expanded the company's AI sector into a staff of many individuals, and co-founder of Coursera. He is now the CEO of Landing AI, a startup that helps people with limited datasets move AI projects.

2. Demis Hassabis: Demis Hassabis launched many AI startups, including Elixir Studios, DeepMind, and Isomorphic Laboratories. At 17, he joined the computer game business Bullfrog Studios as a designer for the science fiction game Syndicate.

3. Rana el Kaliouby: Rana el Kaliouby, an Egyptian-American scientist, co-founded Affectiva, a software business that creates AI with a knowledge of human emotions, cognitive processes, behaviors, and the items people use.

4. Dario Gil: Dario Gil is in charge of IBM's technological roadmap and technical community, as well as driving innovation initiatives in areas such as hybrid clouds, AI, semiconductors, quantum computing, and exploratory research. During his leadership, IBM became the world's first firm to construct programmable quantum computers and make them widely available via the cloud.

5. David Hanson: David Hanson is a pioneering robotics developer recognized for his human-like robots. His motivation in robotics stems from a lifetime desire to develop a genuine living, caring machines. Hanson combines figurative arts with cognitive science and robotics engineering to achieve his aims.

6. Sam Altman: Sam Altman, an American entrepreneur, is the former president of Y Combinator and the CEO of OpenAI, a research and development firm. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Altman was eager to contribute to the worldwide fight against the virus. He helped fund and build Project Covalence, which intended to enable researchers to quickly begin clinical trials in collaboration with TrialSpark, a clinical trial company.

7. Anna Patterson: Anna Patterson is an excellent AI leader. As VP of Engineering at Google, she architected the search serving system, which boosted the index size by more than 10x at the time of launch, assisted Android in scaling from 3 million to over a billion phones, launched Google Play, and headed the search, infrastructure, and recommendation teams.

8. Poppy Gustafsson: Poppy Gustafsson, CEO of AI cyber startup Darktrace, has guided the company through substantial development and global expansion. Gustafsson was selected Vodafone's Woman of the Year for innovations and technology in 2020 and the UK Tech Awards 2019 Tech Businesswoman of the Year.

9. Thomas Siebel: During his tenure as an Executive at Oracle, where he held several managerial positions, Thomas Siebel launched his own firm, Siebel Systems: a CRM software company that was the fastest-growing technology company in the United States in 1999. Oracle eventually purchased the firm in 2006.

10. Andrej Karpathy: Andrej Karpathy is an AI enthusiast interested in training deep neural networks on massive datasets. As Tesla's former Senior Director of AI, he oversaw the Tesla Autopilot computer vision team, which is focused on in-house data labeling, neural network training, and production deployment operating on proprietary inference processors.