Will AI one day win a Nobel Prize?


Replicas of the obverse and reverse of the Nobel Peace Prize medal displayed at The Norwegian Nobel Institute. Some scientists are already hard at work seeking to create an AI colleague worthy of a Nobel, with this year's laureates to be announced between Oct 7 and 14. — AFP

STOCKHOLM: Artificial intelligence is already disrupting industries from banking and finance to film and journalism, and scientists are investigating how AI might revolutionise their field – or even win a Nobel Prize.

In 2021, Japanese scientist Hiroaki Kitano proposed what he dubbed the "Nobel Turing Challenge", inviting researchers to create an "AI scientist" capable of autonomously carrying out research worthy of a Nobel Prize by 2050.

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