Will AI win a Nobel with >95% probability? Skeptic says the bar rises with it
bookwormengr · x · 2026-10-17
Responding to a claim that AI has a >95% chance of winning a Nobel Prize, a skeptic argues the award bar rises as AI capabilities grow — AI-made discoveries may look trivial in hindsight, competition is fierce, and each prize has only one winner. The original claim leans on AlphaFold's Nobel-worthy 2018 breakthrough and OpenAI's multiple Fields-medal-level results this year.
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