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🏆 Nobel Prize 2024 Winners Announced! 🌍

This year, groundbreaking advancements are celebrated as John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work in Artificial Intelligence. Hinton has also issued a stark AI warning, cautioning us about the potential risks of uncontrolled AI development.

Read more about the achievements of this year's Nobel laureates and the crucial discussion on AI ethics and future risks

newmocktail.xyz/2024/10/Nobel-

New MockTail World · 2024 Nobel Prize Winners Revolutionize AI and Genetic Research: Breakthroughs in Neural Networks and Gene RegulationBy Ronit Ghosh

Back on the bird site, I would always post a yearly comparison of all Physics laureates by name and by gender, showing how much more common winners named, e.g., "David" were than women.

With three female laureates since 2018 and based on people seeming to get tired of me posting them, I had stopped...

But there's a new John, meaning As many people named John have won the since 2005 as women have ever.

"This year’s laureates used tools from physics to construct methods that helped lay the foundation for today’s powerful machine learning. John Hopfield created a structure that can store and reconstruct information. Geoffrey Hinton invented a method that can independently discover properties in data and which has become important for the large artificial neural networks now in use."

nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/

NobelPrize.orgThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2024The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”
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I can't help but sharing a little anecdote. This morning I gave a lecture on non-coding RNAs to undergraduate students, where I presented "the short story of a short RNA" - the discovery of the first micro-RNA - lin-4 in C. elegans. Right after finishing the lecture I learned this work was awarded the #Nobel prize. It's such a pleasant coincidence, specially because it's such a beautiful work.
#nobel2024 #microRNA #Biology #Celegans #NobelPRize2024
@worms

"The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded on Monday to U.S. scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA, a molecule that performs this important regulatory process."

scientificamerican.com/article

Scientific American · Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Awarded for Discovery of MicroRNA Gene RegulationBy Tanya Lewis