David GerardThe Nobel Prize in physics goes to Geoffrey Hinton for his work in computer science. What?
khalid_saladSo Geoffrey Hinton is a total dork.
Hopefully, [this Nobel Prize] will make me more credible when I say these things really do understand what they’re saying. [There] is a whole school of linguistics that comes from Chomsky that thinks it’s nonsense to say these things understand language. That school is wrong. Neural nets are much better at processing language than anything produced by the Chomsky school of linguistics.
Geoffrey Hinton Reacts to Nobel Prize: AI's True Understanding Revealed
efficient move, getting the Nobel disease in before the Nobel itself