AI could soon be making major scientific discoveries. A machine could even win a Nobel Prize one day

By Nello Cristianini, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Bath

It may sound strange, but future Nobel Prizes, and other scientific achievement awards, one day might well be given out to intelligent machines. It could come down just to technicalities and legalities.

Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel established the prestigious prizes in his will, written in 1895, a year before his death. He created a fund whose interests would be distributed annually “to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”.

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