Did You notice, that Demis Hassabis from DeepMind wins Nobel?

[Jouni]

Not from AlphaZero, but in chemistry !

[syzygy]

Not from AlphaZero, but in chemistry !

Now Sam Altman will have to win the Nobel Prize in literature for ChatGPT.

[smatovic]

Not from AlphaZero, but in chemistry !

Now Sam Altman will have to win the Nobel Prize in literature for ChatGPT.

[smatovic]

And physics Nobel prize 2024 goes to Hopfield and Hinton for work on neural networks....

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi ... ouncement/

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Srdja

[hgm]

I can understand the chemistry prize. But neural nets do not seem to have anything to do with physics at all. That is mathematics. (For which there is no Nobel prize.)

[smatovic]

[...]
That is mathematics. (For which there is no Nobel prize.)

There is a funny story/legend about why:

http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/why_no_math.html

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Srdja

[smatovic]

The Thinking Game (2024)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32150119

"Chronicles visionary scientist Demis Hassabis' relentless pursuit to crack artificial general intelligence, a journey of extraordinary perseverance."

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Srdja

[towforce]

The Thinking Game (2024)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32150119

"Chronicles visionary scientist Demis Hassabis' relentless pursuit to crack artificial general intelligence, a journey of extraordinary perseverance."

Here's his previous film:

[smatovic]

I did not realize that AlphaGo also played, beside Lee Sedol (world champion, South Korea), Ke Jie (#1 ranked, China) and the Chinese government banned the live stream after the first game:

https://youtu.be/8dMFJpEGNLQ?t=76

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_v ... e#Coverage

As mentioned in "The Thinking Game", this was China's AI Sputnik moment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_crisis

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Srdja