2 scientists were awarded a prize for their discoveries in machine learning
The Sweden Nobel Prize for Physics, Medicine, and Machine Learning (Summology and Statistics, Vol. X, No. 10), Revisited
The two physics Laureates have developed methods that are the foundation of the powerful machine learning, according to the press release.
Ellen Moons, who is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said that the two recipients used fundamental concepts from statistical physics to design artificial neural networks that function as associative memories and find patterns in large data sets.
She said that such networks have been used to advance research in physics and “have also become part of our daily lives, for instance in facial recognition and language translation.”
The three scientists who won the physics prize last year for their work gave the first glimpse into the world of spindly electrons, a field that could lead to better electronics or disease diagnoses.
The Medicine prize was won by Americans Victor and Gary Ruvkun. Two founding fathers of machine learning — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the physics prize.
The physics prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a bequest left by the award’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. It has been awarded 117 times. The anniversary of the death of the award recipient, will be celebrated on Dec. 10.
Nobel announcements continue with the chemistry physics prize on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. Both the economics award and the peace prize will be announced in October.
The 20th anniversary of Des Hassabis and John Jumper’s “Faceful Cracking of the Code” by Linke
“Four years ago in 2020, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper managed to crack the code with skillful use of artificial intelligence. Linke said that they made it possible to predict the structure of any known Protein in nature.
Hassabis and Jumper created an artificial intelligence model that has been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified, the committee added.
The work of David Baker, John Jumper, and the other two men was enough for them to receive a prize from the Swedish Academy.