Scientists John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning within artificial neural networks. Hinton said he was "flabbergasted" as he received the award on Tuesday (October 8). - REUTERS
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00:00John Hopfield, Princeton University, USA, and Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto, Canada,
00:09for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.
00:18I'm flabbergasted. I had no idea this would happen. I'm very surprised.
00:24We have no experience of what it's like to have things smarter than us.
00:29And it's going to be wonderful in many respects. In areas like healthcare, it's going to give us much better healthcare.
00:37In almost all industries, it's going to make them more efficient.
00:41People are going to be able to do the same amount of work with an AI assistant in much less time.
00:47It'll mean huge improvements in productivity.
00:51But we also have to worry about a number of possible bad consequences,
00:57particularly the threat of these things getting out of control.