And the Winner is… Artificial Intelligence (AI)!

And the Winner is… Artificial Intelligence (AI)! This year, the Nobel Prizes in both Chemistry and Physics have recognized the profound, transformative impact that AI has had in these fields. In Physics, the prize was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton. Hopfield’s work on the Hopfield network, a type of artificial neural network that mimics a physical system known as spin glass, earned him recognition (though I’ll need to delve deeper into spin glass myself!). Hinton, on the other hand, was honored for his pioneering contributions to backpropagation, a crucial algorithm used to train neural networks—something I’m more familiar with! In Chemistry, the prize went to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper from DeepMind, as well as David Baker. Hassabis and Jumper were recognized for their groundbreaking work on AlphaFold, an AI program capable of predicting the 3D structure of proteins—a major leap for biological research. Baker was awarded for his innovative computer-aided design of new proteins through his work on the Rosetta platform. AI wins big at the Nobels https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/10/10/ai-wins-big-at-the-nobels from The Economist

- Pedro

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