Artificial Intelligence godfathers win Physics Nobel

Two pioneers of artificial intelligence – John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton – won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionising the way we work and live but also creates new threats to humanity, one of the winners said.

Hinton, who is known as the godfather of artificial intelligence, is a citizen of Canada and the UK who works at the University of Toronto and Hopfield is an American working at Princeton.