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Editorial Roundup: United States

Oct. 16, 2024 16:45 PM EDT

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Oct. 11 The Washington Post on AI's impact on chemistry, biomedicine One of this year’s Nobel Prize winners in physics, Geoffrey Hinton, who pioneered work on the...

AI is having its Nobel moment. Do scientists need the tech industry to sustain it?

Oct. 11, 2024 06:14 AM EDT

Hours after the artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize in physics, he drove a rented car to Google's California headquarters to celebrate. Hinton doesn't work at Google anymore. Nor did the longtime professor at the University of Toronto do his pioneering...

Nobel Prize in chemistry honors 3 scientists who used AI to design proteins — life's building blocks

Oct. 09, 2024 20:18 PM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Three scientists who discovered powerful techniques to decode and even design novel proteins — the building blocks of life — were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday. Their work used advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, and holds the potential to...