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The Nobel prize is said to have been created partly out of guilt over having invented dynamite, which was obviously used in a destructive manner.

Now we have Geoffrey Hinton getting the prize for contributing to one of the most destructive inventions ever.




At least he and Yoshua Bengio are remorseful. Many others haven't even gotten that far...




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