Removing Elon Musk from the list of 100 influential people in the artificial intelligence world of Time magazine

Time magazine removed Elon Musk, a well-known figure in the world of technology and artificial intelligence, from the annual list of “100 influential people in artificial intelligence”; However, this year we see that the name “Scarlett Johansson”, the famous Hollywood actress, is included in this list.

According to a Time report, 91 members of the 2024 list were not on last year’s list, indicating the increasing momentum of AI development. In the second edition of Time’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence, celebrities such as Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, and Sundar Pichai, The CEO of Google has been introduced as the leader of this space.

However, Elon Musk, who launched xAI in the summer of 2023 and whose chatbot, Grok, gained traction against rivals such as ChatGPT, is absent from Time’s list this year.

Removal of Elon Musk from the list of influential people in artificial intelligence Time

Time’s decision to remove the name of the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX from its list has had a lot of feedback on social networks. One of the users on X says: “If you ask any person on this list of 100 people, they say that Elon should be on this list.” Or another user says this is proof of Time’s “bias and lack of honesty”.

The billionaire founded Neuralink in 2016, which in early 2024 successfully implanted a brain chip in a paralyzed patient, allowing him to surf the web and play games with his mind. Some time ago, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, activated the world’s strongest artificial intelligence training cluster. This cluster, called the “Colossus Supercluster”, consists of 100,000 Nvidia H100 processors.

However, in the Time list, the name of Scarlett Johansson, the voice actress of artificial intelligence in the movie Her, is a bit controversial. A few months ago, the actor claimed that OpenAI used his voice in GPT-4o without permission. Of course, this company stopped using this voice in the chatbot.

In general, this year’s Time list is not only limited to individuals and large technology companies, but also to startups and people who are not famous.