Geoffrey Hinton has been awarded the first Nobel Prize for AI. Hinton’s work on machine learning has led him to earn the title the ‘Godfather

The Nobel Physics Prize 2024 was awarded to two scientists who pioneered discoveries in machine learning, which paved way for AI proliferation.

US scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian researcher Geoffrey Hinton have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for creating the "building blocks of machine learning," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday.