Predictions for Physics Nobel Prize 2024 (and the results)

[ergospherical]

Some interesting context r.e. the Hopfield model for spin glasses:
https://indico.ictp.it/event/a02004/contribution/0/material/0/0.pdf

 

[pines-demon]

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 to

• David Baker

“for computational protein design”

• Demis Hassabis
• John M. Jumper

“for protein structure prediction”

Yes the last two are about the AlphaFold achievements.

 

[pines-demon]

Edit: My safe predictions for chemistry is AI for proteins.

I least I got a prediction right, but it was not very difficult after yesterday's announcement.

 

[EDMM2]

Hinton's press conference interview about the award is pretty downbeat.



Quite a bit of discussion about AI risk and safety.

 

[pines-demon]

Hinton's press conference interview about the award is pretty downbeat.

Here is the equivalent press conference for Hopfield:



He also raises awareness on AI.
Additionally, he tackles the question of where is the physics in artificial networks, I consider that he provides a compelling response.

 

[EDMM2]

Thanks for that.

I think they both recognized that their selection would be somewhat controversial.

 

[pines-demon]

More words by Hopfield from today. Inspiring:

 

[pines-demon]

As the moderators did not allowed me to close this thread, I will share here the Nobel lectures by Hopfield and Hinton: