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Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 for two AI researchers

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.

Nobelpreisträger in Physik 2024: John J. Hopfield und Geoffrey E. Hinton
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This year’s two Nobel Laureates in Physics have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of today’s powerful machine learning. John Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data. Geoffrey Hinton invented a method that can autonomously find properties in data, and so perform tasks such as identifying specific elements in pictures.

The most prestigious award for physicists is endowed with a total of eleven million Swedish kronor (a good 910,000 Swiss francs).

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