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What 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.
Nor did Jack Kilby's invention of the IC, but they still gave it to him.
You could probably argue the same for the invention of the transistor...
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So do telescopes. Has anyone every won a Nobel for a telescope?
People have won it over new microscope designs and techniques.. possibly telescopes, too.. but I'm less familiar with that and not somewhere where it's convenient to look it up.
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He was probably considered since he is mentioned in the reasoning paper, still it could be one of those unfortunate omissions in the nobel history since those deciding the prize might have a hard time to measure impact.
Then they shouldn't be trusted to give awards in an area they are not experts in.
I recently watched this quite video on the subject: https://youtu.be/zS7sJJB7BUI?feature=shared and found it quite enjoyable.
Here is the reasoning: https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/09/advanced-physicsp... I'm surprised Terry Sejnowski isn't included, considering it seems to be for Hopfield Nets and Boltzmann machines, where Terry played a large role in the latter.
Next year, the creators of Excel will get the prize, because it is an implementation of the mathematical universe.
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Because you can use money to do things? Even if you don't want private property after AGI, you need it now.
Believing that you can do a better job of allocating your Nobel prize money than a central authority is free-market thinking. If he’s a socialist, he should donate all his property to the government, including the entire prize money.
I wonder if they ever gave a Physics Nobel to a person who held a patent! People like Graham Bell never got recognized by the Nobel people. I get the impression that Physics Nobel prizes were more or less given only to University professors. They didnt seem to particularly care for people with grease on their hands
You can continue looking yourself: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/all-nobel-prizes-in-...
Or maybe you can ask ChatGPT for a better summary?
This must piss Schmidhuber off like nothing else.
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He was probably considered since he is mentioned in the reasoning paper, still it could be one of those unfortunate omissions in the nobel history since those deciding the prize might have a hard time to measure impact.
Then they shouldn't be trusted to give awards in an area they are not experts in.