Pioneers in artificial intelligence win the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics – The Mainichi

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two pioneers of artificial intelligence — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live but also creates new threats for humanity.

Hinton, who is known as the godfather of artificial intelligence, is a citizen of Canada and Britain who works at the University of Toronto, and Hopfield is an American working at Princeton.

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Pioneers in artificial intelligence win the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics – The Mainichi