Top AI influencers ahead of 2019: ranking the top 10

Artificial intelligence influencers are driving conversations about AI news and trends across social media and beyond. They advise on company boards, build startups and are moulding an industry that is key in today's tech world, with implications going far beyond. Nearly 70 years on since Alan Turing posed the question: "Can machines think?", artificial intelligence is finally beginning to have a significant impact on the global economy. Proponents of AI believe that it has the potential to transform the world as we know it, with Google's chief executive officer Sundar Pichai describing AI as "more profound than electricity or fire" at an American television network MSNBC event in San Francisco. But AI is still in its infancy, and needs the nurturing hands of its influencers to help it grow, in spite of the research and development effort that has been put into it over the years.