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  • Both Siri and Google Translate utilize artificial intelligence programs modeled after the learning process of human neural networks.
  • American companies possessed about two-thirds of investments in artificial intelligence as of 2016.

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John M. Jumper
John M. Jumper
American computer scientist
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton
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Minsky, Marvin
Marvin Minsky
American scientist
Edward Feigenbaum
Edward Albert Feigenbaum
American computer scientist
Allen Newell
American computer scientist
John McCarthy
American mathematician and computer scientist
Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis
British computer scientist
Alan Turing
Alan Turing
British mathematician and logician
Ray Kurzweil
American computer scientist and futurist
Rodney Brooks
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Judea Pearl
Israeli-American computer scientist
Raj Reddy
Indian computer scientist
Joseph Weizenbaum
American computer scientist
Leonardo Torres Quevedo
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