"The Nobel prize committee doesn't want to miss out on this AI stuff, so it's very creative of them to push Geoffrey through the physics route," she said. "I would argue both are

AI is making a splash at the Nobel Prizes this week. AI pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 prize for physics for their machine learning breakthroughs that led to today’s AI boom.

Both of the men who won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics are artificial intelligence pioneers — and one of them is considered the technology's "godfather." As Reuters reports, American scientist John Hopfield is joined in this world-class distinction by British-Canadian AI expert Geoffrey Hinton.