Well I haven't heard of the other two either if that counts
One of the other two won a Nobel prize this year, so has some broader publicity.
:( I was just making a light hearted joke, I lost so much karma.
Ask HN: Why isn't Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton?
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Re: Ask HN: Why isn't Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton?
#22A visit to Google scholar can answer your question. Having made deeper and broader contributions to the field is usually how researchers become more famous. E.g. most PhD advisors are more renowned than their students because they've made deeper and broader contributions. This is obviously true in case of Hinton. Ilya additionally spearheaded GPT models and founded OpenAI, and is widely recognized as a visionary across his body of work.
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton?
#23Re: Ask HN: Why isn't Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton?
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
because of the things he's saying about where AI goes in the future, that the brain works like an LLM, and in particular his doomer-ism about LLMs. he was wrong about many DL paradigms and didn't contribute in any way to the advances that brought us LLMs for at least the last decade, but now since he won the Nobel (undeservedly imo) his wrong opinions get publicity and misinform the public and decision makers. i thin…
If he gave up on ideas because other people moved on, he would never have done the work that won the prize. It took someone very stubborn to continue working on neural nets back then.
I think thats absolutely wrong.