The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton “for foundational discoveries and innovations that allow machine studying with synthetic neural networks.”

This yr’s laureates “have used instruments from physics to develop strategies which might be the inspiration of right this moment’s highly effective machine studying,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm stated this morning in a press launch.

Hopfield, of Princeton College, created a kind of reminiscence that may retailer and reconstruct patterns in knowledge. Hinton, of the College of Toronto, invented a strategy to autonomously discover properties in such knowledge. 

The winners will break up the prize of 11 million Swedish kroner, or about $1 million. 

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