The Royal Swedish Academy announced on Tuesday morning that John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for their research in the field of machine learning and artificial neural networks.
Conducted by John J. Hopfield, an American physicist at Princeton University, conducted important research in 1982 on multilayer artificial neural networks, which we now call Hopfield networks. Geoffrey Hinton, a professor at the University of Toronto, developed the network architecture based on Hopfield's research. Today he is known as the father of machine learning, and even today he often expresses his opinion on issues related to artificial intelligence.
Machine learning has now developed into a serious scientific tool, with which groundbreaking results can be achieved in medicine, astronomy, mathematics or materials science – and Swedish academics have confirmed this.
They wanted to reward them mainly because of their scientific usefulness
Hopfield and Hinton.
Geoffrey Hinton, who was arrested by a representative of the Nobel Committee in a California hotel before an MRI scan, answered questions from the press and said that in his opinion the impact of artificial intelligence will be as profound as the impact of the industrial revolution, health care will be much better, and people should get used to it. Living with machines smarter than them.
When asked if he had a favorite AI tool, Hinton said he often uses GPT-4 for routing, but doesn't consider it reliable due to frequent machine hallucinations.
Pierre Agostini, Anne Lhuillier and Ferenc Kraus received the prestigious scientific prize last year for their pioneering work in physics in the field of ultrafast laser science, establishing attosecond physics and chemistry based on the location of electrons.
The 2024 Nobel Prize ceremony began on Monday with the awarding of the medical prize to Victor Ambros and Gary Rovkun for their discovery of microRNA.
(Cover photo: Geoffrey Hinton on June 19, 2024. Photo: Mert Alper Darvis/Anadolu/Getty Images)
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