John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton win Nobel for Machine Learning discoveries

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday.

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The two Nobel Laureates in Physics have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of today's powerful machine learning. The duo used physics to find patterns in information.

In an accompanying explanation of the research, the Nobel Prize body said that many people have experienced how computers can translate between languages, interpret images and even conduct reasonable conversations.

However, it said that what is perhaps less well known is that this type of technology has long been important for research, including the sorting and analysis of vast amounts of data. The development of machine learning has exploded over the past 15 to 20 years and utilizes a structure called an artificial neural network.