Neural Nets and Nobel Prizes: AI's 40-Year Journey from the

Neural Nets and Nobel Prizes: AI's 40-Year Journey from the Lab to Ubiquity

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a16z General Partner Anjney Midha shares his perspective on the recent collection of Nobel Prizes awarded to AI researchers in both Physics and Chemistry. He talks through how early work on neural networks in the 1980s spurred continuous advancement in the field — even through the "AI winter" — which resulted in today's extremely useful AI technologies.

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