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In stunning Nobel win, AI researchers Hopfield and Hinton take 2024 Physics Prize
Hinton, who quit Google in 2023 to warn of AI dangers, was “flabbergasted” at the news.
Neural networks have brought automation techniques to machines that must deal with approximations and fuzzy edge cases; they must also learn from unstructured data such as giant scrapes of the Internet that let conversational chatbots such as ChatGPT look like they know everything, among many other uses. In 1987, Hinton, together with David Rumelhart and Ronald J. Williams, helped bring attention to backpropagation, a key method for training neural networks that is fundamental to today's generative AI models. In 2012, Hinton collaborated with Alex Krizhevsky and future OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever to develop AlexNet, a pivotal innovation in computer vision and deep learning widely credited with launching the current era of generative AI.
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