Hinton, 76, helped develop a technique in the 1980s known as backpropagation instrumental in training machines how to 'learn' by fine-tuning errors until they disappear.

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to machine learning pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton:: Stockholm, Sweden :: Hans Ellegren, Secretary General, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences"John Hopfield,

The Nobel committee that honored the science behind machine learning and AI also mentioned fears about its possible flipside.