Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist who’s pioneering work on deep learning in the 1980s and 90s underpins all of the most powerful AI models in the world today, has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Hinton shares the award with fellow computer scientist John Hopfield, who invented a type of pattern-matching neural network that could store and reconstruct data. Hinton built on this technology, known as Hopfield networks, to develop back propagation, an algorithm that lets neural networks learn.
Source: Nature