John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, “godfathers” of Artificial Intelligence, won the Nobel Prize for Physics

2024-10-08 10:43:33

The American John Hopfield and the British-Canadian one Geoffrey Hinton They received this Tuesday the Award Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 for his work on artificial neural networks, which allow machines to learn, and which laid the foundation for the development of artificial neural networks artificial intelligencegiving rise to current chatbot models, such as ChatGPT.

“The two winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics have used the tools of physics to develop methods that underpin powerful machine learning systems today,” the jury said in a statement.

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“Although computers cannot think, machines can they now mimic functions such as memory and learning. This year’s Physics winners contributed to making all this possible”, they added in the writing published on the social network. Instagram.

Hopfield, 91 years old and professor at Princeton Universityand Hinton, 76 and a professor at University of Torontowere awarded “for their fundamental discoveries and inventions enabling machine learning using artificial neural networks.”

Artificial neural networks are inspired neuronal network of the human brain and both have been working on this topic since the 1980s.

Ellen MoonsPresident of the Nobel Committee for Physics, explained that this year’s winners “used fundamental concepts of physics statistical physics to design artificial neural networks that function as associative memories and find patterns in large data sets.”

“These artificial neural networks have been used to advance research in fields as diverse as particle physicsTHE materials science and the astrophysicsand have become part of our daily lives, he added in statements to the press.

This was reported by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Artificial intelligence (AI) is “revolutionizing science, engineering and everyday life”, thanks to the work of Hopfield and Hinton, although they warned risks and responsibilities that must be taken when using these technologies.

Geoffrey Hinton, British computer scientist.

Nobel Prizes 2024

The Nobel Prize in Physics is the second to be awarded this season, after Monday’s that of medicine to American scientists Vittorio Ambrogio Yes Gary Ruvkun, awarded for the discovery of microRNA and its role in genetic regulation.

Him prize Nobel From Physics 2023 had been assigned to the Franco-Swedish Anne L’Huillier, the Frenchman Pierre Agostini and the Austro-Hungarian Ferenc Krausz for their research on instruments for explore electrons inside atoms and molecules.

Awards season continues this week with the announcement of the winner or winners Nobel Chemistry on Wednesday, the long-awaited Literature prizes on Thursday and Peace on Friday. The Economy Prize will close the season on Monday 14 October.

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