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Are We Now Giving Nobel Prizes to Cheerleaders?

Even though both John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton are brilliant researchers, there were much more obviously deserving recipients
I still find it hard to see the connection between physics and neural networks but if it's there, Paul Werbos and Bernie Widrow should have won the Nobel Prize. Read More ›
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Can the AI Poker Champ Improve Real-World Decisions?

That’s the claim aired at Nature for Pluribus, the new Texas hold ‘em champ. Bradley Center fellows are skeptical

“The trouble is," says Brendan Dixon, "any technique that works by searching ‘to the end of the game’ will not help self-driving cars (as an example) one bit…unless they have also mastered predicting the future. There is no ‘end of the game’ for nearly all decisions we make.”

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