Herbert Simon won the Nobel Economics prize, but I don’t recall how much his AI work was mentioned vs his work on organizations and psychology.

 

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From: Tumer, Kagan via Robotics <robotics@lists.engr.oregonstate.edu>
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Subject: [Robotics] Nobel Prize in Physics in 2024

 

 

Well, this is an interesting development:

 

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/press-release/

 

Certainly, Hopfield networks and Boltzmann machines are inspired by physics, but at the root, this Nobel prize is for training neural networks. Might be the first truly AI-based Nobel prize. 

 

So, keep coding out there, you never know where it may lead!

 

Kagan