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One of the so-called ‘godfathers of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton and professor and physicist John Hopfield were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their work that began in the 1980s ...

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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two pioneers of artificial intelligence — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is ...