LONDON — Two pioneers behind machine learning — a technology that is already transforming society in ways big and small and that carries profound ethical questions — won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday.
The award went to John Hopfield, 91, of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton, 76, of the University of Toronto, “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks,” the Nobel committee announced.
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LONDON — Two pioneers behind machine learning — a technology that is already transforming society in ways big and small and that carries profound ethical questions — won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday.
The award went to John Hopfield, 91, of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton, 76, of the University of Toronto, “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks,” the Nobel committee announced.
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