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The Family Tree of Intelligence

A relationship graph of the figures arranged by ten blocks — birth and foundations, the connectionist revival, the deep-learning revival, games and reinforcement learning, Transformers and language models, OpenAI and the industry contest, compute and China’s AI, the consolidation by tech giants, safety and ethics, and self-driving and critique. Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom, tap a node for its card.

Birth & FoundationsPerceptron, Connectionist Revival & Statistical LearningThe Deep-Learning RevivalGames & Reinforcement LearningTransformers & Language ModelsOpenAI & the Industry ContestCompute & China’s AI ForceThe Consolidation by Tech GiantsSafety, Ethics & GovernanceSelf-Driving, Critique & Education🔓Alan Turing🏷️John McCarthy🧩Marvin Minsky♟️Claude Shannon📐Newell and Simon🎲Arthur Samuel🔁Norbert Wiener📚Isaac Asimov📷Frank Rosenblatt⏮️Paul Werbos🔙David RumelhartTerrence Sejnowski📊Vladimir Vapnik🕸️Judea Pearl🤖Rodney Brooks😊Cynthia Breazeal🧠Geoffrey Hinton👁️Yann LeCun🧭Yoshua BengioJürgen Schmidhuber🎭Ian Goodfellow🖼️Fei-Fei Li🌌Ilya Sutskever🏆Demis Hassabis🧮Shane Legg🤝Mustafa Suleyman🎯Richard SuttonDavid SilverGarry Kasparov🪨Lee Sedol🔮The "Transformer Eight"📖Jacob Devlin✍️Alec Radford⚙️Jeff Dean💬Sam Altman🚀Elon Musk🛠️Greg Brockman🎬Mira Murati🎛️John Schulman🛡️Dario Amodei🧯Jan Leike🎮Jensen Huang🐋Liang Wenfeng🔍Robin Li🎓Kai-Fu Lee☁️Satya Nadella🦙Mark Zuckerberg💎Sundar Pichai🌐Reid Hoffman☄️Nick Bostrom⚖️Stuart Russell📜Eliezer Yudkowsky🦜Timnit Gebru🪞Joy Buolamwini🧵Paul Christiano🐘Connor Leahy🎨Emad Mostaque🔧George Hotz🚗Andrej Karpathy🤨Gary Marcus📈Andrew Ng📘Jeremy Howard🎙️Lex FridmanDrag to pan · scroll or pinch to zoom · tap a node for its card
Technical inheritance or talent cultivation (predecessor → successor) Marriage Same generationPioneersIndustry & Product BuildersTheoretical Founders
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