Predictions for Physics Nobel Prize 2024 (and the results)

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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for their foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks. Predictions for potential laureates included Peter Shor and David Deutsch for quantum algorithms, Christoph Gerber for the atomic force microscope, and Pablo Jarrillo Herrero for magic angle twisted graphene. The discussion highlighted the increasing difficulty in predicting Nobel winners, particularly with the rise of interdisciplinary contributions from fields such as machine learning and quantum physics.

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 to
“for computational protein design”


“for protein structure prediction”

Yes the last two are about the AlphaFold achievements.
 
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pines-demon said:
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.
 
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Hinton's press conference interview about the award is pretty downbeat.



Quite a bit of discussion about AI risk and safety.
 
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EDMM2 said:
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.
 
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Thanks for that.

I think they both recognized that their selection would be somewhat controversial.
 
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  • #37
More words by Hopfield from today. Inspiring:
 
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As the moderators did not allowed me to close this thread, I will share here the Nobel lectures by Hopfield and Hinton:
 

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