The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their work on “machine learning”

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded on Tuesday October 8 to the American John Hopfield and the British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton for their work in “machine learning”used in the development of artificial intelligence. “This year’s two Nobel Prize winners in physics used tools from physics to develop methods that are the basis of today’s powerful machine learning systems”announced the jury in its press release.

The day before, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to the Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of micro-RNA, a new class of tiny RNA molecule playing a crucial role in the regulation of gene activity.

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