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Nobel Prize awarded to ‘godfather of AI’ who warned it could wipe out humanity (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Beyond recognizing the laureates’ inspirations from condensed-matter physics and statistical mechanics, the prize celebrates interdisciplinarity. At its core, this prize is about how elements of physics have driven the development of computational algorithms to mimic biological learning, impacting how we make discoveries today across STEM.

They explain the flex at least

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Seems like a pretty extreme flex, I'm worried it'll snap.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

If they award a Nobel for materials science, this should win.