Turing Award laureates

American John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for pioneering work in the development of artificial intelligence.

The pair were honoured "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks," the jury said.

Recently in the United States the case of a lawyer captured public attention, as he based his defense line on previous cases which, however, had not occurred. The lawyer admitted to receiving his references to these "nonexistent" cases through the use of artificial intelligence.

Top executives at artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, joined experts and professors on Tuesday in arguing that "the risk of AI leading to the extinction of humanity" is rising. They urged policymakers to equate this with the risks posed by pandemics and the outbreak of nuclear war.

We refer to the inventor of something as the "father" of it when we know for a fact that the person is behind the invention. Being a father of a "thing" is getting exceedingly harder as the "things" that are being invented are getting even more complicated. For example, the most important invention of the last century, the internet, has many fathers and mothers.