A.I. Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton Reflects on Winning the Nobel Prize - The New York Times
The computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton spoke with The Times shortly after learning he had won the Nobel Prize for Physics. The computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton at his home in Toronto last year. Credit... Chloe Ellingson for The New York Times Supported by By Cade Metz Cade Metz has been reporting on artificial intelligence for more than 15 years. On Tuesday, the scientists John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton received the Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries that helped drive the development of artificial neural networks — a technology that is now essential to the operation of search engines like Google and online chatbots like ChatGPT from OpenAI. The prize was given for a technology that Dr. Hopfield developed in the early 1980s called a Hopfield network and a related technique that Dr. Hinton helped create in the years that followed called a Boltzmann machine. The news surprised many physicists and artificial intelligence experts, including Dr. Hopfield and Dr. Hinton. In 201
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