The Nobel Prizes this year have truly embraced artificial intelligence in a comprehensive way. It was quite unexpected that yesterday's Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Geoffrey Hinton, who once led AI research at Google (with no disrespect intended for the great teacher Hinton). Today, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, who are currently working on AI at Google. Demis Hassabis, who used to be a game developer, closed his game development studio in 2009 and went on to pursue a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience at UCL. John Jumper is even more impressive; he is a post-85s generation who only graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2017—truly, heroes emerge at a young age...
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