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The Nobel Prize in physics goes to Geoffrey Hinton for his work in computer science. What? (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

lol that's gonna age like milk

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 2 months ago

still better than peace prize for kissinger

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

i mean they still can give nobel prize in literature to chatgpt for extruding most text in unit of time

this is not my field, but allegedly alphafold kinda works, but it's also not ai and more pattern matching, something that google does expertly. i still don't think that it's gonna be very useful even that it does solve a hard problem