The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
Summary:
- Prize awarded for work laying foundation for machine learning
- Hinton quit Google last year to speak more freely about dangers of AI
- Princeton professor Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images
- Physics second award in this year's Nobel line-up
- Prizes announced through course of week
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
This year’s two Nobel Prize laureates in physics have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of today’s powerful machine learning. John Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data. Geoffrey Hinton invented a method that can autonomously find properties in data, and so perform tasks such as identifying specific elements in pictures.
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