2024 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton

TapTechNews October 8th news, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was officially announced this afternoon.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton, "in recognition of their fundamental discoveries and inventions in enabling machine learning through artificial neural networks."

TapTechNews attaches the following official comments of the 2024 Nobel Prize as follows:

The 2024 Nobel laureates in Physics used physics tools to build methods, laying the foundation for today's powerful machine learning.

John J. Hopfield created a structure that can store and reconstruct information. Geoffrey Hinton invented a method that can independently discover data attributes, which has become important for the large artificial neural networks used now.

Although computers cannot think, machines can now imitate functions such as memory and learning. The laureates of this year's Physics Prize have helped to achieve this. They used fundamental concepts and methods of physics to develop techniques that use network structures to process information.