This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to American scientist John J. Hopfield and Canadian scientist Geoffrey Hinton. They received this award for their significant discoveries and innovations that made machine learning possible through artificial neural networks. Their research is playing a crucial role in the advancement of machine learning and AI.
Hopfield has developed a structure that not only stores information but can also reconstruct it. Meanwhile, Hinton invented a method that can independently identify features within data. This has played an essential role in the neural networks currently in use.