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Nobel Prize goes to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton work on machine learning


The winners share a prize fund worth 11m Swedish kronor (£810,000).

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two scientists, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, for their work on machine learning. The announcement was made by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at a press conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Machine learning is key to artificial intelligence as it develops how a computer can train itself to generate information.

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