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Re:John Hopfield and Geoff Hinton Win Physics Nobel Prize [pdf] by jampekka on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @06:21AM (#41775692)
Neither of these models were never really influential though beyond some theoretical niches.
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Re:John Hopfield and Geoff Hinton Win Physics Nobel Prize [pdf] by drpossum on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @06:46AM (#41775876)
Yup. This prize is indistinguishable from "we saw AI in all the headlines, let's see what's the most plausible reasons we could hand it out for that"
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