Artificial intelligence: a paradigm shift in the basic sciences
Nobel Prizes in Physics and in Chemistry 2024
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/visn2024.12.017Keywords:
Nobel Prize in Physics 2024, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024, John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton, David Baker, Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks, machine learning, protein structure prediction.Abstract
This year, the Nobel Committee awarded prizes in two nominations for breakthrough achievements based on the combination of classical sciences and artificial intelligence. The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to American scientist John J. Hopfield from Princeton University and British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive psychologist Geoffrey E. Hinton from the University of Toronto for "foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks". In the chemistry, the Nobel Prize was awarded to three researchers: American biochemist and computational biologist David Baker for “computer-aided protein design” and leading specialists of Google DeepMind, British artificial intelligence researcher Demis Hassabis and American chemist and computer scientist John M. Jumper for “protein structure prediction.”
