>Relative to his level of fame, his actual level of contribution as far as pushing forward AI, I’m not so sure about. He lead a team of one of the most common

>Relative to his level of fame, his actual level of contribution as far as pushing forward AI, I’m not so sure about. He lead a team of one of the most common uses of DNNs, if that isn't 'pushing AI forward', I think you're confused. It's certainly pushing it forward quite a bit more than the publishing game where 99% of the papers are ignored by the people actually building real applications of AI.