It’s a frequent chorus that synthetic intelligence is coming to take all our jobs, and now it appears that evidently Nobel prizewinners are not any exception. Two of the awards this yr, for physics and chemistry, have been claimed by individuals working within the area of AI – a lot to the chagrin of some researchers in areas extra historically recognised by these classes. What does the rise of the AI Nobel imply for the way forward for science?
“These prizes mirror two alternative ways of reckoning with the connection between AI and science:…