{"id":4967,"date":"2024-10-08T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/08\/nobel-physics-prize-awarded-to-godfather-of-ai-who-warned-the-technology-could-end-humanity\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T13:00:43","slug":"nobel-physics-prize-awarded-to-godfather-of-ai-who-warned-the-technology-could-end-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/08\/nobel-physics-prize-awarded-to-godfather-of-ai-who-warned-the-technology-could-end-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel physics prize awarded to \u2018godfather of AI\u2019 who warned the technology could end humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 Nobel prize for physics has been awarded to two scientists who laid \u201cthe foundation\u201d for artificial intelligence \u2013 although one of them recently warned the technology could be the end of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>John Hopfield from Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton from the University of Toronto spent decades developing our knowledge of artificial neural networks, which are the basis of a lot of modern <strong>artificial intelligence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>Artificial neural networks are inspired by the human brain.<\/p>\n<p>Just as we learn by strengthening or weakening the connections between synapses, machines can learn by strengthening or weakening the connections between nodes.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Hopfield and Professor Hinton, who has been described as the \u201cgodfather of AI\u201d, developed artificial neural networks that helped \u201cinitiate the current explosive development of machine learning,\u201d according to the awarding body, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>But despite his work advancing the technology, Professor Hinton made waves last year when he stepped down from Google in 2023 because of his concerns about AI.<\/p>\n<p>In an <strong>interview with the New York Times<\/strong>, he said he sometimes regretted his life\u2019s work, telling the newspaper: \u201cIt is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He even warned the technology could pose a threat to humanity because the machines often learn unexpected behaviour from the vast amounts of data they analyse.<\/p>\n<p>They will share a prize of 11 million Swedish kroner (around \u00a3810,000).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s two <strong>Nobel<\/strong> Laureates in physics have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of today\u2019s powerful machine learning,\u201d said the academy in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMachine learning based on artificial neural networks is currently revolutionising science, engineering and daily life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Nobel prizes are considered some of the most prestigious awards in the world and were created in the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish scientist who invented dynamite.<\/p>\n<p>Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, who helped modern understanding of atomic structure, both received the Nobel prize for physics in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Last year it was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L\u2019Huillier for their work in creating ultra-short pulses of light that can show changes within atoms, potentially improving the detection of diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Physics is the second Nobel to be awarded this week.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, two American scientists who discovered how <strong>\u201cmicroRNA\u201d controls the decoding of genetic information <\/strong>in living organisms received the Nobel prize for medicine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 Nobel prize for physics has been awarded to two scientists who laid 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