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Here's Why the Nobel Prize In Physics Went to AI Researchers

2024-10-11 Science & Technology
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@victorkrawchuk9141 2024-10-11

My guess is that the Nobel Committee just asked ChatGPT who should get the Physics prize. Thank you, an excellent video as usual!

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@luigicantoviani323 2024-10-11

Being motivated by physics does not equal physics.

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@Baughbe 2024-10-12

Non-physicists make ground breaking discovery in physics: Physics Nobel Prize makes sense. Non-physicists make ground breaking discovery in computer science: Physics Nobel Prize makes no sense whatsoever. The award is for advancements in a field. Not for advancements in a non-related field. And I don't agree that 'if you look at it deeper there is physics there' argument because EVERY field has physics in it. Chemistry: Depends on orbitals and strong force==> Physics. Peace Prize: Well there is whatever social interactions it was about, social interactions depend on peoples mental processes, which depends on brain chemistry, and as before chemistry leads straight to ==> Physics. Everything could be by the secondary and tertiary connections come back to Physics. So therefore: ALL Nobel Prizes are in Physics. So under that reasoning that allows AI development to be a Physics field, then me writing the world's most beautiful sonnet based on harmonics and brain reactions to those harmonics should get me the prize in physics because music has sound waves and sound waves are physics. As far as I can see: All fields contain Math, Physics, and many other fields. The prize of the field is that it advances the top layer, the main structure of that field. Not that it has some part based somewhere, someplace deeper down in that field. Did these guys do amazing work? Seems so. Did these guys advance a field of study? Everyone says so. Should they get a prize for it. Obviously they deserve one from what everyone says about their contributions. Should they get a prize in a secondarily related field, not the actual field of study they advanced? No. They should get the prize for Computer Science. Not Physics.

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@nichendrix 2024-10-12

It's interesting how Anton describes Statistical Physics as being an obscure branch of Physics, when most researchers in Physics work on the field, not on things like Particle Physics or Astrophysics, both of which also draws heavily from Statistical Physics too.

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@stargazer5784 2024-10-12

It would have been more appropriate to create a new prize for this kind of work.

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@stevenkarnisky411 2024-10-12

Interesting discussion. Thank you, Anton!

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@Apricub 2024-10-12

They could've just created a new category.

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@Ava31415 2024-10-12

Excellent Anton, you just get better and better

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@TH-ph7gg 2024-10-12

This episode is an excellent example on the excellence of Antons explanations.

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@TimFields-i6s 2024-10-12

These comments are great! I love the fact that a whole bunch of PhD's in physics and computer science also watch Anton's channel.

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