Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 for research on artificial intelligence

Award in Stockholm
Nobel Prize in Physics for AI researchers for discovery of machine learning

John J. Hopfield (l) and Geoffrey E. Hinton receive the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics

John J. Hopfield (l) and Geoffrey E. Hinton receive the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics

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The American John Hopfield and his Canadian colleague Geoffrey Hinton are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. They provided the basics of artificial intelligence.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics goes to the US physicist John Hopfield and the British computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton. They are being honored for “fundamental discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks,” as the Nobel Committee announced on Tuesday in Stockholm. The Nobel Prize is internationally considered one of the most important scientific awards.

Last year, the award went to the Hungarian-Austrian physicist Ferenc Krausz, who researches in Munich, the Frenchman Pierre Agostini and the French-Swedish physicist Anne L’Huillier for their experimental methods for generating “attosecond light pulses”. The Nobel Prize is endowed with eleven million Swedish crowns (almost 968,000 euros) and will be awarded on December 10th in Stockholm.

This year’s Nobel Prize season began on Monday with the announcement of the winners for medicine. They were awarded US researchers Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNAs, which play an important role in regulating gene activities. The Nobel Prizes for Chemistry and Literature follow on Wednesday and Thursday, the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday and the award for economics on Monday.

Note: This post has been updated.

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