The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to 2 scientists, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, for his or her work on machine studying.
The announcement was made by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at a press convention in Stockholm, Sweden.
Machine studying is essential to synthetic intelligence because it develops how a pc can prepare itself to generate data.
It drives an enormous vary of expertise that we use right this moment from how we search the web to enhancing images on our telephones.
The winners share a prize fund value 11m Swedish kronor (£810,000)
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