The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to American John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton for their contributions to “machine learning through artificial neural networks.”
At a press conference held by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the recipients of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics were announced.
According to the statement, Hopfield and Hinton were recognized for their “fundamental discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning through artificial neural networks (ANN),” which form the basis of machine learning with the help of physics.
Hopfield created a relational memory that can store and reconstruct images, information, and other types of patterns in data, while Hinton invented a method that can identify features in data without human intervention, thus performing tasks such as recognizing specific elements in images.