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In stunning Nobel win, AI researchers Hopfield and Hinton take 2024 Physics Prize

Techniques drawn from physics The win is already turning heads on social media because it seems unusual that research in a computer science field like machine learning might win a Nobel Prize for physics. “And the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics does not go to physics…” tweeted German physicist Sabine Hossenfelder this morning. From the… Read More »

Mother plucker: Steel fingers guided by AI pluck weeds rapidly and autonomously

Enlarge / The Ekobot autonomous weeding robot roving around an onion field in Sweden. reader comments 74 with Anybody who has pulled weeds in a garden knows that it’s a tedious task. Scale it up to farm-sized jobs, and it becomes a nightmare. The most efficient industrial alternative, herbicides, have potentially devastating side effects for… Read More »