Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 (Category PopularScience)

The Physics Prize went to scientists who made a great contribution to ML, specifically John Hopfield and Jeffrey Hinton for fundamental discoveries and inventions in the field of machine learning and neural networks. It is interesting that the Nobel Committee justified this decision.

Two of this year’s Nobel Laureates in Physics have used physical tools to develop techniques that are the foundation of today’s powerful machine learning. In short,

• John Hopfield invented neural network of his nameIt can be used as an auto-associative memory, as a filter, and to solve some optimization problems. - Jeffrey Hinton He used the Hopfeld network as the basis for a new network using the Boltzmann machine to learn to recognize characteristic elements in a particular type of data. He was also one of the researchers who proposed using the error backpropagation method to train a multilayer neural network.

I wonder what he is. Ludwig Boltzmannafter whom it was namedBoltzmannHe was the founder of statistical mechanics and molecular-kinetic theory. But 1906 He committed suicide, which was linked to depression because his ideas about statistical physics at the time were not understood by the physical community. And now his distant followers that developed his ideas towards ML. (which has nothing to do with physics.)They receive the Nobel Prize in Physics.

In general, the hype around machine learning and artificial intelligence has reached the Nobel Committee on Physics.

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