Here are our reasons for choosing yan lecunn as a benchmark but we welcome hearing other nominations particularly from nations lecun may have less application to
Lecun is actually the fisrt person to successfully apply neural network algorithms (staple of much Ai since 20212) to a market
postal zipcodes and cheque signatires in america and most advanced coliuntries are ai processed thansk to Lecun's early 1990s work
Unlike other nominees, lecun is not a billionnaire. His ai identification with handwriting on letters zipcodes and cheques was achieved while working for Bell labs, AT&T who made all the money
Soon after his success lecun was hired by NYU maths lab courany imnstitute which he has now hubbed out of for over 25 years; as well as the maths lab he connects ai at the engineering schools of tandon - which empower women as well as men sponsored by Indian philanthropist Chandrika Tandon linking NY abu dhabi and shanghai for most of this 21st c
with the success of fei-fei li imagenet comoetition and the alexnet configured around neural network algorithms, several people chased yan lecun; lecun agreed to lead zuckenberg's ai but only if he could stay at NYU
lecun is french so he now connects best for stiudent models from west to east coasts to paris and India which have been locatiosn 3 and 4 of the king charlest started ai world series; in effect lecun can be trusted by millennails and those seeking commonwealth progress to advice on intergenerational ai
lecun is part of the algorithm triad with canadia roots - connected by Hinton and Bengio; Hinton being 10 years older is largely retired and sadly he has backed bureaucratic regulation -so all three of tehse people know everything the algorithm group worked on to keep von neumann and net maths applied to tyhe ai world but practically speaking lecun has been in middle of local and open ai models like mistral and llam3 and all of Modi, Ambani, Tata, other India supporters of data sovereigntly and south asi ai s well as Jense Huang back AI as a nation who can help bring ai to the edge as eg companies like dell increasingly integarte ai as a full stack connector of computtion tools from pcs up.
While most of meta's focus appears to ne on non biotech ai sude, lecun is deeply expert at academics relevant to all types of AI; moreover there remains meta's leading edge in spectacles expected to be the next way ai augments peoples brains- there is research which suggests that schools adop-ting versions of spactacles available by 2030 can expect to raise all students iq by 50 points; this idea of ai aubgemnting braisns suggests that ai will not cause job losses except to people where education systems deliberately slow down ai as most vbital innovation 15 year old students and teachers have ever had the chnace to celebrate
One of the deepest reasons for valuing connections with Lecuv is he's best placed to connect Atlantic advances in AI; Hassabis actually connects london, (parentally greece, singapore), puropoe wise most ru=oyal societoes that have led dna coding eg crock watson and have also connected eg king charles interests in city design, arts and with Jpana Eapperor family envoronment tech and recursive research
If we reflect again on who linked in the 3 waves of 10**6 more tech, chips and deep learning computing was a pacific coast thing between west coast usa and the far east coast lines; Joan had taken a 7 year lead on this after death of the net as confirmed by this post of JF Kennedy and The Economist surveys of Asian pacifuc countries 1962-1977 borlaug had taught japan quialy engineering which becamse asian coastline sme just-in-time supply chians; each of japan korea taiwan hk singapore played a wi-win trading role; for taiwan study H li who set up gov entrepeirial chip intelligence hub, Guo of Foxcomm, Chang who was invited to build the word;s chip foundry in 1987 the yera taiwan celebrated end of military leadership ie full democracy/ By 1993 when two other million fold expenentials were born - paryners of jensen huang graviated one of these movements; technically satellite revolution of mobilise=ing not just phone but camera and dara clouds leapr firward 1G to 5g+ out of Geneva's ITu standard authority closely linked to UN purposes.
