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The linked document connects their work to physics as follows: "The Hopfeld network utilises physics that describes a material’s characteristics due to its ato
by jgrahamc 2y ago
The linked document connects their work to physics as follows:
"The Hopfeld network utilises physics
that describes a material’s characteristics due to its
atomic spin – a property that makes each atom a tiny
magnet. The network as a whole is described in a
manner equivalent to the energy in the spin system
found in physics, and is trained by fnding values for
the connections between the nodes so that the saved
images have low energy"
"Hinton used tools from statistical physics, the science
of systems built from many similar components."
- drpossum 2y agoThen it should be awarded for the result. Given the line of reasoning this has now opened up Alan Turing should be awarded one posthumously in every field.
- eigenket 2y agoHe unironically should
- volkadav 2y ago100% agreed as I can't think of any one individual since(1) who has done as much for all of science and engineering as he ultimately did; alas, they are not awarded posthumously. (1) Newton would be a strong contender on a "for all time" basis, but even he would've probably needed to share it with Leibniz, which would have driven him absolutely ~b o n k e r s~, like wet hornet in a hot outhouse mad, LOL.
- jampekka 2y agoNeither of these models were never really influential though beyond some theoretical niches.
- drpossum 2y agoYup. This prize is indistinguishable from "we saw AI in all the headlines, let's see what's the most plausible reasons we could hand it out for that"
- wslh 2y agoIt seems like a hallucination generated from a ChatGPT prompt...