“I think it will have a huge influence. It will be comparable with the industrial revolution. But instead of exceeding people in physical strength, it’s going to exceed people in intellectual ability. We have no experience of what it’s like to have things smarter than us and it’s going to be wonderful in many respects. In areas like healthcare, it’s going to give us much better healthcare.”
Born #OnThisDay in 1947, physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton is sometimes described as the "Godfather of AI" and he helped lay the foundation for the machine learning revolution that started around 2010.
Hinton shared the 2024 physics prize with John Hopfield, for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.
Learn more by watching our official interview: https://t.co/MD061XWG54
The day after this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced, Richard Robson stood before his students at the University of Melbourne, teaching as he always did.
He shared the 2025 chemistry prize with Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi for the development of metal–organic frameworks.
Later today, the 2025 laureates will meet in Stockholm for the first time, marking the beginning of Nobel Week. Follow along online: https://t.co/XmOhARfots
Photo: Mireille Stahle/University of Melbourne
The #IT industry has lost over $10 trillion since 2005 due to repeated project management mistakes. They haven't learned from failures over the last 20 years.
https://t.co/z3qyY6ng4P
Researchers in Malaysia have discovered an incredible new endemic ‘fairy lantern’ species with fewer than 20 individuals known to exist in the wild.
🔗 Learn all about it on the @Pensoft blog: https://t.co/7fBtAeNdhU
Imagine this:
A university that only prioritizes research above all else.
Professors do not teach, mentor, or interact with students directly. All energy goes toward publishing papers and securing grants.
All instruction is delivered through self-paced online modules, AI tutors, and pre-recorded lectures.
These graduates now enter the workforce.
What kind of professionals would these people become?
1/ Seen a lot of tweets about foreigners planning to retire in Malaysia. As someone who's worked with stateless people struggling to call this place home, I can’t help but feel the irony. Stateless kids are born here but can’t belong. You flew in & claimed it after one nasi lemak
@ChaosAmongstUs @thesasho@ashdgandhi@UCLA Many profs I’ve spoken to—some of whom have won teaching awards at top schools—report spending at least 10 hours of prep per hour of lecturing (and often far more). Varies case by case but teaching well takes a lot of time.
Harini newsfeed saya berkecah dengan posting-posting tentang kegilaan kejar ranking di universiti-universiti di Malaysia dan bagaimana syarikat-syarikat QS dan THE bloodsucking our money just so that we're ranked.
As a PhD student, all I focused on was getting a PhD.
As a PhD supervisor, I focus on training students on the long-term process that leads to getting a PhD.
Here's some examples🧵