Social RoboticsHopfield and Hinton win Nobel Prize in Physics for neural networks
The prize honoured foundational work that made modern machine learning with artificial neural networks possible.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton. Hopfield created a network that can store and reconstruct patterns, and Hinton built on it with the Boltzmann machine, using ideas from statistical physics. The academy credited this work with helping spark today's rapid progress in machine learning. The neural network methods behind speech recognition, vision and language models used in social robots trace directly back to this research.
Source: NobelPrize.org
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