Nobel Prize in physics goes to machine learning pioneers Hopfield, Hinton

With AI becoming smarter, Hinton warns of things 'getting out of control'

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John J Hopfield and Geoffrey E Hinton won this year's Nobel Prize in physics, Sweden's Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced at a news conference in Stockholm on Oct 8.  © Reuters

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -- U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for discoveries and inventions in machine learning that paved the way for the artificial intelligence boom.

Heralded for its revolutionary potential in areas ranging from cutting-edge scientific discovery to more efficient admin, the emerging technology on which the duo worked has also raised fears humankind may soon be outsmarted and outcompeted by its own creation.

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