Will AI one day win a Nobel Prize?

Some scientists are already hard at work seeking to create an AI colleague worthy of a Nobel, with this year's laureates to be announced between October 7 and 14.

In 2009, Ross King, a professor of machine intelligence at Chalmers University in Sweden published a paper in which he and a group of colleagues presented "Robot Scientist Adam" -- the first machine to make scientific discoveries independently. (File photo)