PYMNTS.com October 8, 2024
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to two pioneers whose work laid the foundation for today’s artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, even as one of the recipients has become a vocal critic of the technology’s potential dangers.
The Academy announced Tuesday (Oct. 8) that John J. Hopfield, 91, of Princeton University, and Geoffrey E. Hinton, 77, of the University of Toronto, share the prestigious award “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
From Physics to AI
The two laureates’ work, which dates back to the 1980s, provided crucial building blocks for modern machine learning techniques. Their innovations in training artificial neural networks — computing systems inspired by...
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