Subject: Re: OT: AI Nobel Prizes
In term of significance, AI is like the invention of Integrated Circuit, it started with tens or hundreds of improvement in scale, and now it's in the scale of trillions. So it is certainly justified for a Nobel prize. Naming it as physics is indeed odd, probably it's the closest to math. Hinton is the number one pioneer in AI. However, almost every method or algorithm existed before his work. And I'm not sure how relevant is Boltzmann machine to today's AI.