Politico October 10, 2024
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded this week not one, but two of the most prestigious science awards in the world to artificial intelligence researchers.
The Nobel Prize in Physics went to physicist John Hopfield and computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, for their contributions to the neural networks that power today’s most powerful AI models. In Chemistry the prize went to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, the latter two having developed the AlphaFold AI model that definitively mapped the proteins known to humankind.
Hinton himself not-so-subtly hinted in an interview with The New York Times that the committee was trying to send a message about the importance of the technology.
But you don’t need to speculate about the...
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