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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded 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”.
Hopfield is associated with the Emeritus Howard A Prior Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Princeton and Hinton is an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.
The Nobel physics committee made the decision to award the prize to Hopfield and Hinton earlier in the day.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” pic.twitter.com/94LT8opG79
In a press release, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Hopfield and Hinton used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of today’s powerful machine learning (ML).
The ML is the branch of artificial intelligence (AI) that uses data and algorithms to imitate the way humans learn. It analyses data to identify patterns and relationships. Simple applications may include a bank or a financial auditor training an ML system on troves of financial date to figure out fraudulent transactions from genuine dealings. Hopfield and Hinton have been awarded for laying the foundations for such ML systems.
Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data and Hinton invented a method that can autonomously find properties in data and so perform tasks such as identifying specific elements in pictures, according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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