Physics Nobel prize goes to artificial neural networks and machine learning

The 2024 Nobel prize in physics has been jointly awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffery Hinton ‘for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks’.

Hopfield from Princeton University, US and Hinton from the University of Toronto, Canada were praised by the Nobel committee for ‘using fundamental concepts and methods from physics’, to develop technologies with ‘the greatest benefit to humankind’, said the chair of the Nobel committee, Ellen Moon.