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.

The Nobel Prize announcements for 2024 are rolling out this week with awards in physiology or medicine to two Americans who discovered microRNA and honors in physics for an American and a Canadian who were key to development of the machine learning that’s underpinning artificial intelligence.

U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian colleague Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that laid the foundation for machine learning, the award-giving body said on Tuesday.

One of the most influential academics in artificial intelligence, Geoffrey E. Hinton, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for training artificial neural networks and laying the foundations

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live but also creates new threats for humanity.

Hinton, 76, helped develop a technique in the 1980s known as backpropagation instrumental in training machines how to 'learn' by fine-tuning errors until they disappear.

Instead of giving the physics prize to pioneers in physics, the academy on Tuesday gave the award to Princeton professor John Hopfield and University of Toronto professor Geoffrey Hinton for their work on AI and machine learning.