Comments by "John Berry" (@user-ud6ui7zt3r) on "The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics Did Not Go To Physics -- This Physicist is very surprised" video.

  1. When the whole "neural network" thing started, universities would get a computer, and somebody would ask... "How much memory do you need, to implement your proposed neural network?" ...and I guess the answer would come back as... "How much computer memory can we GET?" In other words, all they knew is that they needed A LOT of computer memory, with no idea as to how much memory was actually needed to accomplish anything worthwhile, in terms of an artificial neural network. Meanwhile, over in Electronics Engineering, the question has always been... "What is the fewest number of gates/transistors needed, to accomplish a task?" This is famously referred to as the Gate Cost. Personally, where Op Amps are concerned, I think I have previously counted that a basic 741 Op Amp is implemented using approximately 30 to 35 internal transistors. At the same time, I have always been able to reproduce the same function as any 741 Op Amp circuit, using no more than 3 transistors, combined with just a few capacitors and resistors.
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  2. Sabine: Will the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics be awarded to a physicist? < shake > < shake > 🎱 ᴰᴼ ᴺᴼᵀ ᴮᴱᵀ ᴼᴺ ᴵᵀ
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  3. The "danger point" will be when AI... • poses original problems that we never thought of • poses original problems in which we can't even understand the question • solves the problem • gets another AI to nominate the first AI for the Nobel Prize
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  4. I don't see how AI could ever "feel" a feeling. Sure, if AI were connected to a robotic hand, and the hand was placed near a flaming Bunsen burner, the AI could process that, in the vicinity of the hand, the ambient temperature was 700° F. But it couldn't FEEL the sensation feeling that we call "hot". I think that the capability to "feel" a sensation feeling falls within the domain of the question... "What is consciousness?" To this day, nobody seems to know what consciousness is. You can endlessly imitate consciousness, but that's all you get... just an imitation.
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  5. Makes me think of that old "saw" about putting typewriters and monkeys in a locked room, and if you wait long enough, the monkeys will "bang out" every great literary work. I guess you could do the experiment, replacing monkeys with ChatGPTs.
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  6. Sabine: Will the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics be awarded to a physicist? < shake > < shake > 🎱 ᴼᵁᵀᴸᴼᴼᴷ ᴺᴼᵀ ᵀᴼᴼ ᴳᴼᴼᴰ
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  7. Return To Sender 👀 [the look of surprise, back in Stockholm, when Hopfield and Hinton return their prize notifications, both claiming that the committee must have the wrong address]
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