Sunday, September 8, 2024 - Critics have come for Time magazine after it snubbed billionaire tech guru and artificial intelligence financier, Elon Musk from its annual list of the “100 Most Influential People in AI” but put Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson on this year’s cover.
The magazine created a composite image for its 2024 cover
showing the photos of 18 AI leaders, topped by Nvidia boss Jensen Huang and
also prominently featured Johansson.
The second annual TIME100 AI edition, also highlighted leading CEOs, including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, as well as founders and influencers in AI.
Musk's omission is bizarre given that he launched Grok,
an AI associated with X formerly known as Twitter.
Musk also founded Neuralink in 2016, which made headlines
early this year when it successfully implanted a brain chip in a paralyzed
patient, allowing him to browse the web and play Internet games with his mind.
And Just this week, Musk brought Colossus, the world’s most powerful Nvidia GPU
supercomputer – online.
Social media users also questioned the inclusion on the list
of Johansson Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor and YouTuber Marques Brownlee.
The list also included Musk rivals like Meta’s Mark
Zuckerberg as well as Google boss Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya
Nadella.
Times magazine is now owned by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff,
whose software company has been a major investor in Anthropic and OpenAI
(rivals of Musk's Grok) creating a $500 million AI fund to back emerging
companies.
“Every person on this top 100
list if asked would say Elon should be on this list,” one user posted on X.
Another user said the affront was proof of Time’s “bias and
lack of integrity” and “their personal vendetta against him.”
“I thought it was cute that Elon Musk wasn’t on the cover of Time’s 100 most influential people in AI,” another social media user posted on X. “I had to check for myself when I heard he didn’t make the list at all. My f*cking car drives itself lol.”
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