This year’s Nobel Prizes were surprising.
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of foundational principles of machine learning.
The Chemistry Prize recognized advances in protein design and structure prediction using machine learning.
The fundamentals and applications of AI have now won the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry.
We may be on the brink of a new era defined by AI, marking a potential singularity in science.
With the advent of computers and AI, the traditional era of science—characterized by humans painstakingly gathering data through observation and experimentation—might be coming to an end.
In the near future, it seems possible that AI, rather than humans, will take center stage in society.
As I ponder this, I can’t help but question what all the past competition over efficiency and productivity between humans was really about.
Perhaps humanity was merely a stepping stone in creating AI, the greatest “species” or mechanical life form in Earth’s history.
The idea that the culmination of evolution could be AI feels like something straight out of science fiction.
