AI is having its Nobel moment. Do scientists need the tech industry to sustain it?

AI is having its Nobel moment. Do scientists need the tech industry to sustain it?

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Hours after the artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize in physics, he drove a rented car to Google’s California headquarters to celebrate. Hinton doesn’t work at Google anymore. Nor did the longtime professor at the University of Toronto do his pioneering research at the tech giant. But…