John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were given the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Tuesday in recognition of their ground-breaking work in artificial intelligence.
The official announcement states that the physics tools used by this year’s Nobel Laureates in Physics have laid the groundwork for the advanced machine learning systems of today.
An associative memory model that can store and reconstruct images and other data patterns was created by John Hopfield. His research paved the way for machines to be able to remember and identify complex data. Meanwhile, Geoffrey Hinton invented a technique for automatically recognising characteristics in data, making it possible to identify particular components in pictures.
The development of AI technology has been greatly impacted by their joint efforts.
The finding that allowed Anne L’Huillier, Pierre Agostini, and Ferenc Krausz to record the fleeting seconds of electron spin last year earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics. This discovery has potential uses in electronics and medical diagnostics.
Since its founding, Alfred Nobel’s legacy has sponsored the 117 Nobel Prizes in Physics, which come with a monetary prize of 11 million Swedish kronor, or roughly ₹8.3 crore.
