acknowledgments
My deepest thanks go to the researchers and engineers whose work animates Sutskever’s List. Their hard-won victories have moved the field forward. I am grateful to the pioneers of deep learning who challenged conventional wisdom and proved skeptics wrong, to the problem-solvers who engineered systems that made AI work in the real world, and to the educators and communicators who clarified these complex ideas for a broader audience.
I am especially grateful to those whose skepticism rose above paper doubt into a living demand for better evidence—those who did not merely declare the limits of AI but sharpened benchmarks, exposed brittle claims, and compelled the field to earn confidence through results. Their doubts strengthened the field more than paper hopes and doubts could ever.