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An American professor at Princeton University and a British-Canadian professor at the University of Toronto won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for research that “formed the building blocks” of a key part of artificial intelligence. John J. Hopfield, 91, was awarded the honor alongside Geoffrey E. Hinton, 76, who left his job at Google last year so he could speak freely about his concerns over the technology.
Their research “formed the building blocks of machine learning, that can aid humans in making faster and more reliable decisions,” Ellen Moons, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics, told a news conference. The use of this technology has “become part of our daily lives, for instance in facial recognition and language translation,” Moons said, while warning that AI’s “rapid development has also raised concerns about our future.
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