Paola Bonfante è una delle più importanti studiose di simbiosi fra le piante, le loro radici, i funghi e la miriade di microrganismi che popolano il terreno. Con lei abbiamo parlato del suo libro "Una pianta non è un’isola" e abbiamo scoperto che sotto i nostri piedi le piante si "parlano", si scambiano messaggi chimici e nutrienti in una fitta rete che qualcuno ha voluto chiamare "Wood Wide Web", l’internet del mondo vegetale.
This year, Artificial Intelligence played a leading role in the Nobel Prizes for Physics and Chemistry. More specifically, it would be better to say machine learning and neural networks, thanks to whose development we now have systems ranging from image recognition to generative AI like Chat-GPT. In this article, Chiara Sabelli tells the story of the research that led physicist and biologist John J. Hopfield and computer scientist and neuroscientist Geoffrey Hinton to lay the foundations of current machine learning.
Image modified from the article "Biohybrid and Bioinspired Magnetic Microswimmers" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/smll.201704374
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John J. Hopfield, an American physicist and biologist from Princeton University, and to Geoffrey Hinton, a British computer scientist and neuroscientist from the University of Toronto, for utilizing tools from statistical physics in the development of methods underlying today's powerful machine learning technologies.
