{"id":5000,"date":"2024-10-09T19:49:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T02:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2024-10-18T23:46:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T06:46:40","slug":"two-nobel-prizes-for-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2024\/10\/09\/two-nobel-prizes-for-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Prizes for AI (and None for Physics)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes! AlphaFold does appear (at least to this non-expert) to actually advance Chemistry. But I have seen nothing that I would call evidence that Hinton’s work on the “Boltzmann machine” has contributed anything to understanding of the physical models that inspired it. I expect that this will be a controversial award!<\/p>\n

Source: (15) Two Nobel Prizes for AI, and Two Paths Forward<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

See also this video<\/a> \u00a0and this<\/a>\u00a0from a couple of other surprised physicists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes! AlphaFold does appear (at least to this non-expert) to actually advance Chemistry. But I have seen nothing that I would call evidence that Hinton’s work on the “Boltzmann machine” has contributed anything to understanding of the physical models that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5015,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions\/5015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}