Andrew Nusca
Professor David Haviland, a member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, during the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Good morning. I’ve got Elon Musk on my mind, and not for reasons you might suspect.
It’s because of his never-boring Boring Company, which presently has a bit of a trespasser problem in Las Vegas. (Read more below from Fortune’s Jessica Mathews.)
Only a few years ago Musk promised to alleviate traffic in notoriously clogged Los Angeles; today, he’s relocated to Texas and left a literal tunnel of broken promises.
And I’m still stuck in, well, you know. —Andrew Nusca
P.S. We goofed the other day by implying that Google did not pay for news in Canada. The company struck a deal with the federal government almost a year ago. Thanks to eagle-eyed reader Benoît for the catch. —Andrew Nusca
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And the Nobel goes to…AI
Professor David Haviland, a member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, during the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. (Photo: Steffen Trumpf/dpa/Getty Images)
Steffen Trumpf—dpa/Getty Images
Two artificial intelligence pioneers yesterday won a Nobel Prize—and two of Google's brightest minds separately won another today.
The first honor went to “godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton—you know, the one who dramatically quit Google last year so he could warn the world of AI’s risks—and to John Hopfield, whose work in the early 1980s helped lay the foundation for today’s machine learning technology.
Both men significantly advanced the concept of the artificial neural network, though neither invented it as such.
Hinton and Hopfield were
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