Who of these 20 is the top AI researcher?

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resolved Feb 21

Ilya Sutskever

Geoffrey Hinton

Andrej Karpathy

Yann LeCun

Demis Hassabis

Yoshua Bengio

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Jürgen Schmidhuber

Paul Christiano

Alec Radford

Kaiming He

Ian Goodfellow

Richard Sutton

Alex Krizhevsky

Andrew Brown

Christopher Manning

Diederik Kingma

Shane Legg

Stuart Russell

Alex Graves

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The top 10 ranked answers to this poll will resolve the winners of that market, ties broken by percentage. The choices for this poll were taken from the current top 20 entries by percentage.

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Alec Radford seems criminally underrated on there, the guy was behind GPT-1, GPT-2, CLIP, and a bunch of other important stuff

Rip, I did not realise I could only vote for one person! And so voted for Ilya, as the first of the ten I'd have chosen from the list

Can I vote for Saining Xie?

@Sss19971997 sadly there's no way to edit poll entries

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