Geoffrey Hinton: AI pioneer to receive Nobel Prize in physics [Video]

The Nobel Prize ceremony in Sweden has begun and British Canadian AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton will shortly be given his award.

The presentation is being held at the Stockholm Concert Hall, where King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden is expected to bestow the award on Hinton and his physics prize co-laureate, John Hopfield.=

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British Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton and co-laureate John Hopfield are set to receive their Nobel Prize for physics at a ceremony in Stockholm today.

Hinton and Hopfield are being given the prize because their use of physics developed some of the underpinnings of machine learning, a computer science that helps artificial intelligence mimic how humans learn.

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