Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Machine Learning

• Posted On: October 10, 2024
• Posted By: tilen

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to American scientist John J. Hopfield and British-Canadian scientist Geoffrey E. Hinton for fundamental discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.

The significance of neural networks for the rapid advancement of machine learning and artificial intelligence was also highlighted in the media by FRI researchers Marko Robnik Šikonja, Ivan Bratko, Aleksander Sadikov, and Danijel Skočaj in the context of this award-winning achievement.

Read or listen more at:

• Radio Slovenia 1, Current Topic: Neural networks convinced the Nobel Committee for Physics this year (8 Oct 2024)
• MMC RTV Slovenia: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to scientists for discoveries in machine learning (8 Oct 2024)
• Delo, Science & Technology: The stronger artificial intelligence becomes, the greater our responsibility (8 Oct 2024)
• Val 202, Frekvenca X: Nobel 2024: On genes, proteins, and artificial intelligence (10 Oct 2024)