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What is innovation? Lessons from AI’s Nobel controversy

Vivek Wadhwa writes: The myth of the lone genius dominates public narratives, leading us to believe that major breakthroughs occur in isolation

While Geoffrey Hinton’s recognition is deserved, it underscores a common flaw in how credit is distributed: the contributions of early pioneers often fade from view. (AFP)
Updated on Oct 12, 2024 12:52 AM IST

Nobel Prize 2024 winner proud of ex-student’s role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI ouster

Geoffrey Hinton, 2024 Nobel Prize winner, expressed pride in former student Ilya Sutskever's role in Sam Altman's dismissal from OpenAI.

British-Canadian professor Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physicsfor discoveries and inventions in machine learning that paved the way for the artificial intelligence boom.(Reuters)
Published on Oct 10, 2024 09:51 AM IST

Nobel prize in Physics: They trained their machines to imitate the human brain

They are pioneers who developed early artificial neural networks. John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton used fundamental concepts of physics to develop their ideas

A screen shows the laureates of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, US physicist John J Hopfield and Canadian-British computer scientist and cognitive psychologist Geoffrey E Hinton, during the announcement by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden on Tuesday. (AFP)
Updated on Oct 09, 2024 12:03 AM IST

AI scientists are producing new theories of how the brain learns

The challenge for neuroscientists is how to test them

Working out how the brain does what it does is no easy feat. Much of what neuroscientists understand about human learning comes from experiments on small slices of brain tissue, or handfuls of neurons in a Petri dish(Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Published on Aug 18, 2024 08:00 AM IST
The Economist

'Godfather of AI' quits Google to warn of the tech's dangers

Geoffrey Hinton, who created a foundation technology for AI systems, said that advancements made in the field posed "profound risks to society and humanity".

Hinton said that competition between tech giants was pushing companies to release new AI technologies at dangerous speeds, risking jobs and spreading misinformation. (File)
Updated on May 02, 2023 10:55 AM IST
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