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Jürgen Schmidhuber, a professor for computer science and expert on artificial intelligence, has claimed that the Nobel Prize for Physics 2024 was awarded for plagiarized work. This prize went to Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield for their groundbreaking contributions to research in artificial intelligence. But maybe their contributions were not as groundbreaking as we thought? I’ve had a look.

Plagiarism Claim: https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/physics-nobel-2024-plagiarism.html

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