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minus-squareBougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·2 months agoThe Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to a computer scientist this year, so like… I could see this. Anything goes!
minus-squareryannathans@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months agoYou can’t be dropping facts like that without elaborating
minus-squarephdepressed@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoComputer scientists won the physics Nobel for some machine learning algorithm. Supposedly, they used physics to create the structure of neural networks for ML. A couple computer scientists behind alphafold also won part of the chemistry Nobel. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/summary/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/summary/
minus-squareryannathans@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoFor research done in the 80s if I read correctly? Solely because AI is going nuts for commercial reasons now?
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to a computer scientist this year, so like… I could see this. Anything goes!
Isn’t that the joke?
You can’t be dropping facts like that without elaborating
Computer scientists won the physics Nobel for some machine learning algorithm. Supposedly, they used physics to create the structure of neural networks for ML.
A couple computer scientists behind alphafold also won part of the chemistry Nobel.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/summary/
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/summary/
For research done in the 80s if I read correctly? Solely because AI is going nuts for commercial reasons now?