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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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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Hopfield is enormously influential, I don't mind him getting a major prize at all. Physics seems weird tho.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Yada yada Chinese room

[–] raktheundead@fedia.io 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The Nobel Prize committee really seem to be trying hard to make this the worst set of awardees ever, aren't they? All we need is another Kissinger-esque situation for the Peace Prize and a Handke-esque situation for the Literature prize and they'll have disgraced the Nobel Prizes permanently.

[–] basmati@lemmus.org 7 points 2 months ago

Netanyahu for the peace prize, is Vance for literature.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

I was going to suggest Vitalik Buterin for the Fake Nobel of Economics as a bit, but the coiners already beat me to it.

So my next choices for the award would be SBF or Bored Ape Yacht Club.

[–] diz@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago

Then next year Hopfield and Hinton go back to Sweden, don't tell king of Sweden anything, king of Sweden still gives them the Nobel Prize! King of Sweden now has conditioned reflex!

[–] diz@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nobel prize in Physics for attempting to use physics in AI but it didn't really work very well and then one of the guys working on a better more pure mathematics approach that actually worked and got the Turing Award for the latter, but that's not what the prize is for, while the other guy did some other work, but that is not what the prize is for. AI will solve all physics!!!111

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Out of curiosity, are they using any of his underlying ML techniques to analyze imaging/other data collection before using it in actual physics models?

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