Two North America-based academics used physics to help pioneer advances in AI — and now they’re being rewarded for their contributions with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday that Princeton emeritus professor John Hopfield and University of Toronto professor Geoffrey E. Hinton were the latest Physics Nobel Prize winners. Hopfield was honored for inventing the Hopfield Neural Network, a system that stores and recreates patterns in data, in 1982.
Hinton, who has been called “The Godfather of AI,” used the Hopfield network as the basis for a network of his own, the Boltzmann machine, which he co-invented in 1985. The machine can
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