What Geoffrey Hintons Nobel Prize Means for the AI World [Video]

The Godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. Obviously, the tech world is abuzz with discussions about the AI professor known for his work in deep learning, and his work in physics. However, moving on from the massive win for Hinton and the AI/ML ecosystem, we see this also as a new beginning for the future of AI and its investments.

Hinton achieved the award for developing the ‘Boltzmann machine’, a neural network model inspired by statistical physics. This model allows neural networks to self-learn patterns from data by modelling systems with interacting nodes, mimicking how the brain processes and categorises information.

Apart from this, David Baker, an American biochemist and computational biologist, and Demis Hassabis and John M Jumper, two Google DeepMind scientists, have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 

Baker received the award for ‘computational protein design’ and the other two shared jointly by Hassabis and Jumper for ‘protein structure prediction.’ …