Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for research that helped develop the neural networks that are fundamental to modern artificial intelligence.

John J. Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey E. Hinton of the University of Toronto were awarded the prize for their work with machine learning.

U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that laid the foundation for machine learning, the award-giving body said on Tuesday.

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning.

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was given to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for development of techniques that laid the foundation for revolutionary advances in artificial intelligence

John J. Hopfield was awarded the honor alongside Geoffrey E. Hinton, a British-Canadian professor at the University of Toronto, in Canada.

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — who is known as the Godfather of artificial intelligence — were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning and artificial intelligence.