The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm awarded on Tuesday John Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
Hopfield and Hinton used “fundamental concepts from statistical physics to design artificial neural networks that function as associative memories and find patterns in large data sets,” Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics Ellen Moons said at a press conference.
These networks were further described as helping advance research in various fields of physics, and have become a part of one’s everyday life, which can be observed in facial recognition technology and language translation.
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