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The Nobel Prize in physics goes to Geoffrey Hinton for his work in computer science. What? (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

nobel committee went full on ai-brained this year, nobel prize in chemistry is for alphafold. they had three good years in a row, had to do something stupid ig

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

lol that's gonna age like milk

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

still better than peace prize for kissinger

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

i mean they still can give nobel prize in literature to chatgpt for extruding most text in unit of time

this is not my field, but allegedly alphafold kinda works, but it's also not ai and more pattern matching, something that google does expertly. i still don't think that it's gonna be very useful even that it does solve a hard problem

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

half goes to david baker, you might remember him from rosetta@home thing. the other two people are from google deepmind

i guess it's one of these years when chemistry nobel goes to biologists, but now with layer of ai hype on top for some weird fucking reason