Canada’s A.I. ‘godfather’ wins Nobel Prize in physics

Geoffrey Hinton, a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto who helped lay down the foundation for artificial intelligence, has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics. He shares the award with John Hopfield of Princeton University. Eric Sorensen reports on Hinton’s achievements that enabled machine learning, and warnings about the dangers of A.I.

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