October 8, 2024 4:24 PM

Nobel prize in physics awarded to machine learning pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton

U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that laid the foundation for machine learning, the award-giving body said on Tuesday. "This year's two Nobel Laureates in physics have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of today's powerful machine learning," the award-giving body said in a statement. "Machine learning based on artificial neural networks is currently revolutionisin...