‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton receives Nobel Prize in physics

By Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press on December 10, 2024.

Nobel laureates in physics Geoffrey Hinton, left, and John J. Hopfield attend a Nobel Prize lecture in physics in Aula Magna, Stockholm University, Sweden, on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency via AP

Artificial intelligence pioneer and British Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton received the Nobel Prize for physics at a ceremony in Stockholm.

Hinton and co-laureate John Hopfield won the prize for using physics to enable machine learning, a branch of computer science that helps AI mimic how humans learn.

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