Geoffrey Hinton received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in creating the modern field of deep learning. This will strengthen his reputation as the "Godfather of AI" which was already used to amplify his public statements about AI risk.[1]

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

Demis Hassabis, Deepmind's co-founder and CEO, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in creating AlphaFold.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 was divided, one half awarded to David Baker "for computational protein design", the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper "for protein structure prediction".

AlphaFold's extraordinary contributions to the field of computational biology are relatively undisputed, but the relevance of neural networks to physics has led to some discussions. Nevertheless, it can [...]

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First published:
October 9th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CJ2FyyYSEwvwNAKuw/demis-hassabis-and-geoffrey-hinton-awarded-nobel-prizes

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