Nobel Prize in Physics 2024: Where the AI Revolution Began

Published on November 27, 2024

The #NobelPrize in Physics is awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”. But why was their seminal work classed as physics, and what implications has AI for science? Learn more in our new blog post by Ben Skuse.

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