Define today's AI first
In my humble opinion, to talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI), we must first refer to at least a few recognized researchers in the world in this area:
it is A. Turing who (1) defined so abstracted a computer (the Turing machine) to allow the construction of the first electronic computers (especially to decode the messages of the Nazis); (2) tried to define an AI machine (the machine that passes the "Turing test") and (3) in an illusion with Chomsky to make English-Russian and Russian-English word-for-word automatic translation (today we know it's a bit more complicated ...).
There would be plenty of renowned researchers to quote, as Colmerauer who invented PROLOG.Expert systems should also be mentioned with the problem of formalizing experts' knowledge, hence the emergence of knowledge-based design methods (KADS: Wielingua, among others).
Nowadays, AI is once again in fashion, in the form of Big Data processing.
However, it seems to me necessary to mention some high level French researchers: Jérome Chailloux (INRIA, ILOG: Le_Lisp), Jean-Louis Laurière (knowledge levels, meta-knowledge), Jacques Pitrat (Sorbonne universities) and one of the collaborators of the EC3 project, Professor Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (LIP6, Sorbonne, IUF, CNRS).
All of these people have at least once programmed code that is close to an AI machine. In addition, Professor Ganascia has written several recent books of reflection on the consequences of AI in modern society.
Full stop.
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