Scientists Hopfield and Hinton win 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics

AI is not physics!

no one said it is.

Hopfield, of Princeton University, created a type of memory that can store and reconstruct patterns in data. Hinton, of the University of Toronto, invented a way to autonomously find properties in such data.

AI isn’t rocket surgery…

Yeah, I wonder too. In what way is AI physics? It is computer programming.

Right, it is a theoretical model, based on mathematics, which again is a big theoretical model. But there's no Nobel prize for math, that's why they probably have put them into the physics drawing box for that they not leave empty-handed while all the high-rollers win big with this concept. Anyway, AI is only a theory and cannot work in practice. So both are exceptionally lucky, to have been drawn out of the physics lottery and for something that doesn't even work or brings real merits in practice, in our real and analog world.

Seems like a stretch to call that physics :/

Sven AsaiOct. 8 10:45 pm JST

They could have given them the economics prize for non-scientists.

Peter Neil

no one said it is.

So why did they get the Nobel prize for Physics?

Sven Asai

Anyway, AI is only a theory and cannot work in practice. 

Where have you been the last couple of years? Obviously AI works in practice very well.

In what way is AI physics?

I guess it involves electric currents running over physical surfaces.

Guess they feel bad for not giving Turing the Nobel prize for building the first computer. No computer no AI.

British-Canadian colleague Geoffrey Hinton

Hinton is not what you would call an AI doomer but he was the one that resigned from Google and sounded the alarm by saying that the back propagation algorithm and transformer architecture he helped develop has several advantages over human cognition. Its rate of learning is proceeding exponentially. An "AI" does not have to have 'human intelligence' and sentience as we know it to be orders of magnitude more intelligent than human civilization.

A Nobel well deserved.

Congratulations to Professors Emeritus Hopfield and Hinton - and congratulations to Canada, Britain and the US on this fabulous achievement!

If they can give Bob Dylan the Literature Prize, it’s pretty much fair game to give anyone the prize for anything.

This said, the Physics Prize is not unreasonable. AI is not Physics, but many of the processes that make AI possible rely on discoveries in and application of Physics. The award explanation makes that clear.