Geoffrey Hinton, ‘godfather of AI’, and John Hopfield honoured for work on artificial neural networks
Two researchers who helped lay the foundations for modern artificial intelligence – although one later warned of its potential harms – have been awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in physics.
Hopfield, 91, was honoured for building “an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data”, while Hinton invented a method that can “independently discover properties in data”, an important feature of the large artificial neural networks in use today. Announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, the winners share the 11m Swedish kronor prize for “foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.
Asked how AI might affect the world, Hinton told reporters: “I think it will have a huge influence. It will be comparable with the Industrial Revolution. But instead of exceeding people in physical strength, it’s going to exceed people in the intellectual ability.”
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