The AI Update IV: Nobel Prizes for AI Research

In this short biweekly AI update, hosts Scott Rettberg and Jhave Johnston talk about this year's Nobel Peace Prizes for AI research. John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, and Demis Hassabis and John Jumper received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Tune in to find out what their discoveries and inventions are.  

References

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Hopfield, John J. 1974. “Kinetic proofreading: a new mechanism for reducing errors in biosynthetic processes requiring high specificity.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 71(10), 4135–4139. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.71.10.4135. 

Jumper, John, Richard Evans, Alexander Pritzel, et al. 2021. “Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold.” Nature 596, 583–589. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2. 

Rumelhart, David E., Geoffrey E. Hinton, and Ronald J. Williams. 1986. “Learning representations by back-propagating errors.” Nature 323, 533–536. https://doi.org/10.1038/323533a0. 

This work was partially supported by the Research Council of Norway Centres of Excellence, project number 332643, Center for Digital Narrative.