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With the #NobelPrize Award Ceremony coming up tomorrow, we asked FCAI and University of Helsinki professor @troos why AI was so prominent in many of this year’s prizes, and whether AI is making science obsolete.
Read more: https://fcai.fi/news/2024/11/27/this-years-ai-focused-nobel-prizes-reflect-the-zeitgeist
FCAIThis year’s AI-focused Nobel prizes reflect the zeitgeist — FCAIFCAI and University of Helsinki professor Teemu Roos breaks down why AI was so prominent in many of the Nobel prizes awarded in 2024.
Seeing Han Kang recently won the Nobel prize for literature I decided to get her most famous book, The Vegetarian, out of the library. It is remarkable in a number of ways. Here is why I thought that:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1ba7ed49-63be-4ed2-a123-de89cfc26ea4
I'm not a booster of #AI, though not as anti as many here (it's a fun toy with severe limitations, plus ChatGPT is helpful for writing regex) but here's a really good use for it:
https://www.rsc.org/news-events/articles/2024/oct/2024-nobel-prize-winners/
In a past life I was a biologist (I guess a cell biologist, or a biochemist in the loose sense), though not a structural biologist. Predicting protein tertiary structures with decent accuracy is massive!
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In that light, here's my suggestion: After honoring Roger Penrose last year, who, don't get me wrong, certainly deserved any prestigious award, he's still much more of a mathematician, so something like the Fields Medal might have been much more fitting, even back when he was young enough to fit their profile. But nevermind, Ed Witten got that one, one of the most intimidating theoretical pysicists you might imagine, and not a mathematician.
So this is the second year in a row where the Nobel for physics didn't go to a physicist. Maybe the reason is simply that physicists have stopped making progress. There is just nothing to award for, so of course the commitee reached out to adjacent professions. It's either that or not award the prize at all!
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“Although the economics discipline has evolved over time to acknowledge environmental risks and costs, it has yet to rise to the challenge of climate change. A problem as massive as this one will require a fundamental reconsideration of some of the field's most deeply held assumptions.”
https://heatmap.news/economy/nobel-prize-daron-acemoglu-climate
Heatmap News · Nobelist Daron Acemoglu Has Thoughts About Climate Change
Parmi les trois économistes néo-institutionnalistes récompensés cette année par la Banque de Suède (en mémoire à Alfred Nobel), James Robinson (UChicago) a publié dans les #AnnalesHSS un article revisitant l'Etat britannique au 18e siècle, avec l'historien Steven Pincus
https://doi.org/10.1353/ahs.2016.0036 https://shs.cairn.info/revue-annales-2016-1-page-5?lang=fr (in English) https://doi.org/10.1017/S2398568217000012
Cambridge CoreFaire la guerre et faire l ’État | Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales | Cambridge CoreFaire la guerre et faire l ’État - Volume 71 Issue 1
RePEc profiles of all the laureates of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel:
ideas.repec.orgEconomics Nobel Prizes at RePEc
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Fin de la saison des Nobel avec l'annonce des lauréats en économie. Deux versions linguistiques de #Wikipédia avaient déjà les biographies des 12 lauréats avant l'annonce ! https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kurier #nobel2024
Boek 98 van 2024: “De vegetariër” door Han Kang. Poeh, wat een heftig boek over een vrouw die na een indringende droom besluit te stoppen met het eten (en dragen) van producten van dierlijke herkomst. Geweldige opbouw van het verhaal waarin het niet goed afloopt. #boeken #lezen #nobel2024 @boeken Geschreven door de Nobelprijswinnaar 2024 voor literatuur.
Japanese atomic bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize.
Nihon Hidankyo — For demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2024/nihon-hidankyo/facts/ #nobel #nobelpeaceprize #nobel2024 #nobelpeaceprize2024
NobelPrize.orgThe Nobel Peace Prize 2024The Nobel Peace Prize 2024 was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again"
Jamen JA! Ett rungande "Vad bra!" till att Nihon Hidankyo får Nobels fredspris.
"This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again".
NobelPrize.org · Press releaseEnglishNorwegian Announcement The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for […]
I am making up in timely for what I've lacked in consistency: new blog post. It explains what Wired said today but with 40 years of perspective. Lots of cool stuff today. Enjoy:
https://www.allandyenshapiro.com/
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literature-blogAllan Dyen-Shapiro--Science Fiction AuthorHere, I blog about topics of interest to readers of my science fiction. Typically, they will pertain to literature, science fiction in all media, science, futurism, or environmentalism. Occasionally, they are silliness, solely meant to amuse.
"...Han is the first South Korean author and 18th woman to win the prize. Her “empathy for vulnerable lives is palpable, and reinforced by her metaphorically charged prose,” said Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel committee. She “has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in a poetic & experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose”..."
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The Guardian · South Korean author Han Kang wins the 2024 Nobel prize in literature
"Are #NobelPrizes now being awarded for theoretical tools that enable discoveries rather than to the discoveries themselves?"
https://hectorzenil.medium.com/has-the-nobel-committee-jumped-on-the-ai-hype-train-eb47f88efcc1
Medium · Has the Nobel Committee jumped on the AI hype train? Reflections on the implications of this year 2024 choices
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Thought it was too early... But nope! 
Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 - NobelPrize.org
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/press-release/
NobelPrize.orgThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 was divided, one half awarded to David Baker "for computational protein design", the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper "for protein structure prediction"
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 was awarded with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction”.
Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have successfully utilised artificial intelligence to predict the structure of almost all known proteins. David Baker has learned how to master life’s building blocks and create entirely new proteins.
