STOCKHOLM, Oct 8 (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.

Two pioneers behind machine learning — a technology that is already transforming society and that carries profound ethical questions — won the Nobel Prize in physics.

For the first time, a Nobel Prize has been awarded to pioneers in the field of artificial intelligence. Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield were on Tuesday granted the honor of becoming Nobel laureates in physics,