Profile of John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton: 2024 Nobel laureates in Physics
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes breakthroughs contributing to the emergence of a new understanding of the computations that underlie human intelligence, with profound implications for artificially intelligent systems. John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton played seminal roles in these breakthroughs. I begin by characterizing the scientific context in which the new understanding of intelligence began to arise. I then consider Hopfield's and Hinton's ideas and their centrality in the sciences of natural and artificial intelligence, while mentioning others who made major contributions. I conclude with a brief consideration of the current state of the fields these ideas have influenced and of the importance of governmental and scientific organizations in the past and future of these sciences.
Author: James L. McClelland
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4409539151