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.

Nobel Prize in physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for discoveries that enable machine learning

John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 for their pioneering work on machine learning and artificial neural networks.