Two pioneers of artificial intelligence have won the Nobel Prize in physics. John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the prize Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning.
Allegedly for discovering the physics formula E = mc^2 + AI
Here’s a good thread by a physicist about how this discovery was fundamentally a physics thing, even if it’s being metabolized by pop science as “godfather of AI” or whatever
Remember
THE GOD PARTICLE 
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