Interesting that 3 names I recognized as physicists from stat mech adjacent fields. They continue to punch above their expectations (as sampled by general dismissal of physicists in AI/ML on HN and reddit).
I didn't, but only because I became personally interested in AI/ML at some point, so I actually had to learn it myself.
As an AI practitioner, I still couldn't explain eigenvectors or singular-value decomposition to you though.