A Nobel Prize for Artificial Intelligence – The Atlantic

The award should not feed the AI-hype cycle.
The list of Nobel laureates reads like a collection of humanity’s greatest treasures: Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Francis Crick, Toni Morrison. As of this morning, it also includes two physicists whose research, in the 1980s, laid the foundations for modern artificial intelligence.
Earlier today, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for using “tools from physics to develop methods that are the […]
A Nobel Prize for Artificial Intelligence – The Atlantic