- Alan Turing is considered one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, proposing the Turing Test as a criterion for intelligence. - Sam Altman is the well- known CEO of OpenAI, a leading AI research and deployment company. - Kevin Ashton is credited with coining the term "Internet of Things" in 1999. - Thomas P. Caudell, a Boeing researcher, is credited with coining the term "Augmented Reality" in 1992.