LONDON — The award this week of Nobel prizes in chemistry and physics to a small number of artificial intelligence pioneers affiliated with Google has stirred debate over the company's research dominance and how breakthroughs in computer science ought to be recognised.
Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper are two of the three laureates who have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2024.LONDON — The award this week of Nobel prizes in chemistry and physics to a small number of artificial intelligence pioneers affiliated with Google has stirred debate over the company's research dominance and how breakthroughs in computer science ought to be recognised.
Former Google researcher Geoffrey Hinton, meanwhile, won the Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday, alongside US scientist John Hopfield, for earlier discoveries in machine learning that paved the way for the AI boom. Noah Giansiracusa, an associate maths professor at Bentley University and author of How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News, also argued that Hinton's win was questionable.
The profits derived from its leading position have allowed Google and other Big Tech companies to outpace traditional academia in publishing groundbreaking AI research.
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