AI pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton win Nobel Prize in physics

The award is the second of six Nobel Prizes to be announced this week and next.

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00:00John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for

00:07discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning and artificial

00:12intelligence. Hinton is a computer scientist known as the godfather of AI. He works at

00:19the University of Toronto, while Hopfield's research is carried out at Princeton University.

00:25The award was given by the Secretary-General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

00:30in Stockholm. In his acceptance, Hinton described his vision for the future of AI.

00:36I think it will have a huge influence. It will be comparable with the industrial revolution.

00:41But instead of exceeding people in physical strength, it's going to exceed people in intellectual

00:47ability.

00:49The physics prize carries a cash award equivalent to around one million euros. Nobel announcements

00:55continue with the chemistry prize on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The Nobel Peace

01:00Prize will be announced on Friday.