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John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton win Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for their “foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

Over the past 10 years, machine learning and AI have been making a greater and greater impact on our lives. During this time, researchers have published breakthrough results one after another, from enabling computers to recognise images, sometimes better than humans, to modern large language models transforming how we work and interact with computers. Over these 10 years, virtually every field of human activity, from healthcare and medical research to education, engineering, business, and entertainment, has in one way or another been transformed by machine learning and AI.