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.
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