Editorial

15:56 JST, October 17, 2024

Artificial intelligence research dominated the science sector of this year’s Nobel prizes. The decisions regarding the prizes give the impression that AI research has profoundly changed the nature of society and science.

It was decided that the Nobel Prize in Physics will go to scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton, a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto in Canada. He invented a method of deep learning in which a computer that mimics the circuitry of the brain learns by itself. He is called the “Godfather of AI.”

Based on this research, the use of generative AI to process language and images has expanded. When considering the magnitude of its impact, it is even surprising that he has not been awarded the prize until now.

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