Co-winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physicswarn of the potential dangers of AI:: Their contributions to machine learningpaved the way for the AI boom :: October 8, 2024:: Geoffrey Hinton, 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics winner"I'm hoping AI will lead to tremendous benefits,

The computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton spoke with The Times shortly after learning he had won the Nobel Prize for Physics.

The Nobel Institute received 286 nominations this year, but information about potential winners remains tight-lipped.

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton developed artificial neural networks that laid the foundation for modern recommendation systems and generative AI.

The list of Nobel laureates reads like a collection of humanity’s greatest treasures: Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Francis Crick, Toni Morrison. As of this morning, it also includes two physicists whose research, in the 1980s, laid the foundations for modern artificial intelligence.

With work on machine learning that uses artificial neural networks, John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “showed a completely new way for us to use computers,” the committee said.

Emeritus professor John Hopfield is one of two awarded for ‘foundational discoveries” related to machine learning.

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton shared the award for their work on artificial neural networks and machine learning

Until this year, the Nobel Prize for physics has typically gone to pioneers in that field, like last year’s winners who used lasers to make breakthrough discoveries about the electron. But 2024 is the year of artificial intelligence, and apparently the hype has reached even the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning.

Hinton, 76, helped develop a technique in the 1980s known as backpropagation instrumental in training machines how to 'learn' by fine-tuning errors until they disappear.