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Comment by raincole

4 days ago

Early machine learning researchers literally got Nobel Prize last year. Clearly not every incremental step of progress merits a Nobel.

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amelius  4 days ago

Yes! But there is also a delay as 10 or 20 years ago we already had neural nets and I'm curious if people back then thought the concept was Nobel worthy.

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