If anything it's demotivating. Other people that have also contributed greatly were just ignored by this award. While those that received the award were mostly

If anything it's demotivating. Other people that have also contributed greatly were just ignored by this award. While those that received the award were mostly represented by big corps Facebook(LeCun) and Google(Hinton) -- even though these three are deserving as well, especially Hinton. Awards like this are quite stupid. The award isn't even based on a single breakthrough, but on their "collective achievement." This was just a PR thing. Who does science for awards anyway? I thought that was an athlete thing.