Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
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Re: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
#2As a former physicist (PhD in Experimental condensed matter physics), I have to ask WTF?
I get the importance of AI development, but Physics?
Re: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
#3What bizarre choice. Hinton’s work has nothing to do with physics.
Nobel prize jumping on the bandwagon, just like they did for mRNA after covid. At least that was related to medicine.
The first 2 paragraphs of the linked pdf read like a joke. Like it’s a parody announcement.
Re: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
#4Awesome.
> They trained artificial neural networks using physics
Here's from Nobel Prize official website: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/press-release...
Re: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
#5I don't know if this is a travesty that they awarded the prize to work on non-physical systems to jump on a bandwagon or that there was nothing else obvious enough to the board in actual physics to give this to.
If I was the awardee I'd consider declining just out of respect to the field.
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#6"This year’s laureates used tools from physics to construct methods that helped lay the foundation for today’s powerful machine learning."
Does this mean if I'd use a deep understanding of birds to design way more aerodynamic airplanes, I could get the Nobel prize in physiology/medicine? Don't get me wrong, their work is probably prize worthy, but shouldn't the Nobel prize in physics be awarded for discoveries in the _physical world_?
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#7Sweden Yes!
Re: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
#8As a former physicist (PhD in Experimental condensed matter physics), I have to ask WTF? I get the importance of AI development, but Physics?
I'm equally as confused; huge WTF moment. Seems like a paradigm breakthrough, in that Nobel Prizes can be given for discoveries in tangential fields. Or perhaps it's due to Dr. Hopfields physicist status, that all his discoveries are considered physics related? Or that NNs are considered a part of physics / nature?
Re: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
#9Physics Nobel prize now also covers computer science, I guess.
Re: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
#10"This year’s laureates used tools from physics to construct methods that helped lay the foundation for today’s powerful machine learning." Does this mean if I'd use a deep understanding of birds to design way more aerodynamic airplanes, I could get the Nobel prize in physiology/medicine? Don't get me wrong, their work is probably prize worthy, but shouldn't the Nobel prize in physics be awarded for discoveries in the…
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