After making the scientific breakthrough that led to contemporary AI programs, Hinton frets that he “can’t see a path that guarantees safety.”

STOCKHOLM, Oct 8 (Reuters) - U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for discoveries and inventions in machine learning that paved the way for the artificial intelligence boom.

While Hinton’s work catapulted neural networks into the modern era, John J. Hopfield’s earlier breakthroughs laid a crucial foundation.