Nobel Prize in physics awarded for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning and artificial neural networks.

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.

Hinton, who quit Google in 2023 to warn of AI dangers, was "flabbergasted" at the news.