John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, whose work helped build the foundation for the artificial intelligence revolution in the way we live and work, won the Nobel Prize in physics. Why it matters: Their breakthroughs have shown "a completely new way for us to use computers to aid and to guide us to tackle many of the challenges our society face,

While Hinton’s work catapulted neural networks into the modern era, John J. Hopfield’s earlier breakthroughs laid a crucial foundation.

U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian colleague 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.