Elon Musk Omitted from TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI List, Sparking Controversy

Elon Musk Less Influential To Artificial Intelligence Than Scarlett Johansson, Time Magazine Says: Billionaire Brushes Off Exclusion - 'Magazines Do Not Establish Relevance, History Does' - Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)

Musk's exclusion generated plenty of responses on social media including by the billionaire himself. Billionaire Elon Musk is focusing a lot of attention on artificial intelligence these days through companies like Tesla Inc TSLA, X and xAI, but he missed out on being recognized by Time Magazine as a top 100 name for the artificial intelligence sector. What Happened: Time Magazine recently unveiled its second annual TIME100 AI list of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence. A picture shared on X by Time was notably missing Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, which drew plenty of reactions on social media. Clicking through to the list showed that Altman made the cut and wasn't included in the picture, but Musk was nowhere to be found. The tweet from Time has over seven million views and hundreds of comments asking where musk is and why he wasn't on the list. Popular social media user @greg16676935420 had one of the most liked replies. "Elon Musk must've been #101," a reply said. The reply has over 11,000 likes, ratioing the 3,400 likes that Time originally received on the post. The X account @wallstreetbets posted a picture of dogs and captioned the reply with "Time's most influential cats." Tesla influencer Sawyer Merritt criticized Musk being excluded. "Somehow, Elon Musk is not on the list, despite recently bringing online the most powerful AI training system in the world with xAI, and having the largest self-driving data fleet in the world at Tesla," Merritt tweeted. Musk responded to Merritt's post with, "Magazines do not establish relevance, history does." The thought from Musk comes as the billionaire is often quick to criticize media companies and their coverage of him, but in this case took the high road and offered a way to say I'll show them. Did You Know? Congress Is Making Huge Investments. Get Tips On What They Bought And Sold Ahead Of The 2024 Election With Our Easy-to-Use Tool Why It's Important: The TIME100 AI list includes many well-known figures like Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Sundar Pichai of Google, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta Platforms and Lisa Su of AMD. It may have been the inclusion of actor Scarlett Johansson on the list that drew the most attention at someone who beat out Musk. The actress lashed out at OpenAI for the usage of what sounded like her voice for ChatGPT after previously being asked to share her voice on a project. While the moment was significant to the artificial intelligence in the world of deepfakes and concerns of using people's image and likeness without permission through AI, many argued that she isn't as influential on the sector as Musk. Musk made the Time list last year for influential names in AI, but could have missed out due to a focus on selecting new names. "Ninety-one of the members of the 2024 list were not on last year's an indication of just how quickly the field is changing," Time said. The magazine said they interviewed members from last year's list to find the best new additions, which could suggest a preference to new names. When it comes to AI, Musk is one of the most mentioned names. Tesla investors and analysts have argued that the company best known for electric vehicles could be one of the most underrated AI companies. Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood previously told Benzinga that Tesla should trade like a technology stock and not like an auto stock, due in large part to its place in AI. "Tesla, because of its positioning with AI, it is the only auto company or tech company that has designed its own chip for autonomous driving," Wood previously said. Wood said autonomous taxi platforms could be "the biggest AI project in the world." Wedbush analyst Dan Ives shares the same commentary on Tesla being an AI company. "The key for Tesla's stock looking ahead is the Street recognizing that Tesla is the most undervalued AI play in the market in our view with a historical Robotaxi Day ahead for Musk and Tesla," Ives previously said. Ives said Tesla is more of an AI and robotics lay than a traditional car company. Along with Musk pushing AI forward at Tesla, the billionaire also launched the xAI company, which is well-known for its Grok chatbot. xAI raised $6 billion earlier this year. Check This Out: Lawmakers Made Huge Investments This Year. Get Tips On What They Bought And Sold Ahead Of The 2024 Election With Our Easy-to-Use Tool Market News and Data brought to you by Benzinga APIs

Time snubs Elon Musk from 100 most influential people in AI -- but...

Time snubbed tech titan and artificial intelligence backer Elon Musk from its annual list of the "100 Most Influential People in AI" - but slapped 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 that also prominently featured the "Black Widow" star. The second annual TIME100 AI edition, released Thursday, also highlighted leading CEOs, including Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman, as well as founders and influencers in the fast-growing field. Yet Musk, who launched xAI last summer and its chatbot Grok has gained traction against rivals like ChatGPT -- was conspicuously absent from its pages. The century-old magazine is now owned by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, whose software company has been a major investor in Anthropic and OpenAI, creating a $500 million AI fund to back emerging companies. Time's head-scratching decision to snub the Tesla and SpaceX founder led to an uproar on social media. "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." The billionaire 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. Just this week, Musk brought Colossus - the world's most powerful Nvidia GPU supercomputer - online. "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." Social media users also questioned the inclusion on the list of Johansson - who scuffled with OpenAI over its alleged use of her voice to train a chatbot without her permission - 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. "If the world of AI was dominated by the emergence of startup labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and their competitors in 2023, this year, as critics and champions alike have noted, we've seen the outsize influence of a small number of tech giants," Editor in Chief Sam Jacobs wrote on Thursday. "This year's list offers examples of the possibilities for AI when it moves out of the lab and into the world." Jacobs emphasized that artificial intelligence is a rapidly evolving field - and with those changes come new leaders. He said 91 of the members of the 2024 list were not on last year's list, which he called "an indication of just how quickly this field is changing." Time did not respond to requests for clarifications on the nomination process. Its editors and reporters sought nominations from dozens of industry leaders and experts to compile the list, according to a press release.

TIME's most 100 influential people in AI list doesn't include Elon Musk, has Scarlett Johansson

TIME has released its list of what it says are the top 100 most influential people in AI, a list that anyone that knows anything about AI would expect to see SpaceX, Tesla and xAI boss Elon Musk on the list... but nope. TIME doesn't think he's influential enough, but actress Scarlett Johansson is. In the cover, you can see NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su, and even YouTuber "MKBHD" who, as much as I somewhat enjoy some of his videos, is not top 100 most influential in AI material, sorry Marques. Elon Musk, however, has the largest AI GPU cluster in the world, millions of Tesla vehicles on the road capturing video and information and feeding it into an AI, X is feeding billions of bytes of data per day into AI, and he has self-landing rockets with SpaceX. I mean, TIME isn't just out of touch -- this is showing their bias. Rewinding the clock back to 2016-2020, when anything Trump did saw people who didn't like Trump referred to as "TDS" or Trump Derangement Syndrome. This is some serious EDS, or Elon Derangement Syndrome. Just because they don't like his politics -- he's voting Trump, and is fully 100% behind President Trump -- so they omit him from a list where he should've been #1. Right. TIME's other issue... there's not just no Elon Musk, but there's no Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI, the makes of ChatGPT), Mark Zuckerberg (CEO of Meta). Just these three men have more influence on the AI market than most companies (apart from NVIDIA) yet they're all not listed, while an actress is... TIME is so out of touch.

Time's 'big snub' to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, drops him from 'top AI influencers' list - Times of India

Time magazine has released its 2024 list of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence. The list features tech CEOs like Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, and Mark Zuckerberg. However, this year, the magazine has notably excluded Tesla CEO Elon Musk from its annual "top AI influencers" list. This decision marks a significant departure from previous years, where Musk was consistently included among the most influential figures in the field of artificial intelligence. The list, which aims to highlight key figures shaping the future of AI, includes tech leaders, researchers, and policymakers. Musk's absence is particularly notable considering his frequent public statements on AI risks and his calls for regulation in the field. Time magazine has not provided a specific explanation for Musk's exclusion, but the decision has been widely interpreted as a "big snub" to the tech mogul. The omission is particularly notable given Musk's vocal advocacy for AI safety and his involvement in several AI-related ventures, including OpenAI and Neuralink. Here's a list of some of the important personalities in AI globally: - Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google and Alphabet - Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft - Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI - Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Meta - Demis Hassabis- CEO and co-founder, Google DeepMind - Lisa Su- CEO, AMD - Jensen Huang- CEO, Nvidia - CC Wei - chairman and CEO, TSMC - Mayayoshi Son, chairman and CEO, Softbank - Liang Rubo, CEO and co-founder Bytedance The TOI Tech Desk is a dedicated team of journalists committed to delivering the latest and most relevant news from the world of technology to readers of The Times of India. TOI Tech Desk's news coverage spans a wide spectrum across gadget launches, gadget reviews, trends, in-depth analysis, exclusive reports and breaking stories that impact technology and the digital universe. Be it how-tos or the latest happenings in AI, cybersecurity, personal gadgets, platforms like WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and more; TOI Tech Desk brings the news with accuracy and authenticity.

Musk Missing: Time's AI Influencers List Sparks Outrage

Anil Kapoor has been named on TIME Magazine's list of "100 Most Influential People in AI", released on September 5, 2024, while Elon Musk has not! Kapoor, who was the first to sue and win a legal case against the unauthorized use of his likeness through AI, was joined by Scarlett Johansson, similarly profiled for her effort in fighting deepfake abuse of her voice. This list also included Google's Chief Executive Officer, Sundar Pichai, for his contribution to AI at Google.