One of the winners said that the pioneers of artificial intelligence – John Hobfeld and Jeffrey Hinton – won the Nobel Prize in Physics on October 8 to help create basic building blocks that revolutionize the way we work and live but also creates new threats to humanity.
Mr. Hinton, known as the godfather of artificial intelligence, is a citizen in Canada and Britain working at the University of Toronto, and Mr. Hobfield is an American working in Princeton.
“Two of the physics winners this year used tools of physics to develop methods that are the basis for strong automated learning today,” the Nobel Committee said in a press statement.
Ellen Monz, a member of the Nobel Committee at the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, said that the two “casualties of statistical physics to design artificial neuromus that act as interconnected memories and find patterns in large data collections.”
She said that such networks have been used to enhance research in physics and “have also become part of our daily life, for example in facial recognition and language translation.
Mr. Hinton expected artificial intelligence to have a “major influence” on civilization, making improvements in productivity and health care.
“It will be similar to the industrial revolution,” he said at The Open Call with correspondents and officials from the Swedish Swedish Academy.
“Instead of exceeding people in physical strength, people will go beyond intellectual ability. We have no experience in something like we have more intelligent things from us. It will be great in many respects,” said Mr. Hinton. “But we also have to be concerned about a number of possible bad consequences, especially the threat of these things from control.”
The Nobel Committee, which honored the sciences behind machine learning, as well as artificial intelligence, mentioned concerns about its potential straw. Mrs. Monz said that although “huge benefits, her rapid development also raised concerns about our future. Collectively, humans bear the responsibility for using this new technology in a safe and moral way for the greatest benefit than humanity.”
Mr. Hinton shares these concerns. He left a role in Google so that he can speak more freely about the risks of technology that helped in its creation.
On October 8, he said he was shocked by honor.
“I was stunned. I had no idea that this would happen.”
There was no immediate reaction from Mr. Hobfield.
In the 1980s, Mr. Hinton helped develop a technique known as BackProPagation, which had an effective role in training how to “learning”.
Later, his team at the University of Toronto dazzled his peers using a nervous network to win the prestigious imagenet compute Vision competition in 2012. This victory has achieved a wave of counterfeit copies and generating the rise of modern artificial intelligence.
Mr. Hinton and his fellow scholars of artificial intelligence, Yoshua Bingio and Yan, won the Torring Award, Torring Award, in 2019.
“For a long time, people believed that what the three of us did was nonsense, as they thought we were very misleading and what we were doing was very surprising to smart people who seemed to waste their time,” Mr. Hinton told Associated Press in 2019.
The Nobel Committee said that Mr. Hobfield has invented a trade union memory that could store and rebuild images and other types of data patterns.
“What absolves me is that this question about how the mind comes from the device,” said Mr. Hopkins in a video clip published by the Franklin Institute after he was awarded the Physics Award in 2019.
Mr. Hinton used Mr. Hobfield Network as a basis for a new network that uses a different way, known as the Bolktmann machine, which the committee said can learn to identify the distinctive elements in a specific type of data.
Six days of Nobel ads were opened on Monday with Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Rovkon wins the Medicine Award to discover small infections of genetic materials that work as continuous transfers within cells that help control what the cells do and when they do so. If scientists can understand how they work and how to manipulate it, this may one day lead to strong treatments for diseases such as cancer.
The Physics Award holds a cash prize of 11 million Swedish kronor (one million dollars) from a will to leave the creator, the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The residents are invited to receive their awards at the celebrations on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Mr. Noble.
Nobel ads continue to the Chemical Physics Award on October 9 and Literature on October 10. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on October 11 and the Economy Award on October 14.
This story was reported by Associated Press.