Category: Nobel
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Are tech billionaires hijacking our future? This Nobel laureate warns of Big Tech’s stranglehold on AI and democracy
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Should our future be decided by the CEOs of Big Tech? For Nobel laureate in economics Simon Johnson, giving too much power to a handful of billionaires would come at the expense of the public interest. The British-American economist who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology also stressed that…
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The controversy surrounding AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton’s Nobel Prize misses the point
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The Nobel Prize was recently awarded to Geoffrey Hinton for his contributions to artificial intelligence (AI). It sparked controversyand reveals a deeper issue of how society rewards innovation. While Hinton is celebrated for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and his popularization of back propagation, critics, including AI expert Jürgen…
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Nobel physics prize goes to machine learning pioneers By Reuters
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Written by Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – American scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries and inventions that laid the foundation for machine learning, the Nobel Prize-awarding body said on Tuesday. The award-giving body said in…
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Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus was arch foe of ousted Bangladesh PM Hasina By Reuters
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Written by Roma Paul and Sudipto Ganguly DHAKA (Reuters) – Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, a pioneer of the global microcredit movement who could lead Bangladesh’s new interim government, was a bitter enemy of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who resigned and fled the country. Known as the “banker to the poor,”…
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Joseph Stiglitz interview: Columbia economics professor and Nobel laureate
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Stiglitz says the protest movement sweeping his organization and many others is “hitting the ground” and recalls his history as a civil rights protester in the 1960s. “This may seem hard to believe, but I was there at the March on Washington in August 1963, with Martin Luther King,” he…