Premio Nobel de Física para investigadores pioneros en aprendizaje automático
John Hopfield at Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton at the University of Toronto honoured for pioneering work on artificial neural networks
Dos investigadores han recibido el Premio Nobel de Física por sus revolucionarios trabajos sobre máquinas que aprenden.
John Hopfield, de la Universidad de Princeton, y Geoffrey Hinton, de la Universidad de Toronto, han sido galardonados por sus trabajos pioneros sobre las redes neuronales artificiales, en las que se basa gran parte de la inteligencia artificial moderna.
Anunciado por la Real Academia Sueca de las Ciencias en Estocolmo, los ganadores se reparten 11 millones de coronas suecas (unos 810.000 euros).
El comité del Nobel declaró que el premio se concedía "por descubrimientos e invenciones fundacionales que permiten el aprendizaje automático con redes neuronales artificiales".
8 October 2024
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 to
John J. Hopfield
Princeton University, NJ, USA
Geoffrey E. Hinton
University of Toronto, Canada
“for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”
Los galardonados con el premio Nobel de este año, utilizaron herramientas de la física para construir métodos que ayudaron a sentar las bases para el poderoso Aprendizaje Automático actual. John Hopfield creó una estructura que puede almacenar y reconstruir información. Geoffrey Hinton inventó un método que puede descubrir de forma independiente propiedades en los datos y que se ha vuelto importante para las grandes redes neuronales artificiales que hoy se utilizan
They trained artificial neural networks using physics
This year’s two Nobel Laureates in Physics have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of today’s powerful machine learning. John Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data. Geoffrey Hinton invented a method that can autonomously find properties in data, and so perform tasks such as identifying specific elements in pictures.
When we talk about artificial intelligence, we often mean machine learning using artificial neural networks. This technology was originally inspired by the structure of the brain. In an artificial neural network, the brain’s neurons are represented by nodes that have different values. These nodes influence each other through connections that can be likened to synapses and which can be made stronger or weaker. The network is trained, for example by developing stronger connections between nodes with simultaneously high values. This year’s laureates have conducted important work with artificial neural networks from the 1980s onward.
John Hopfield invented a network that uses a method for saving and recreating patterns. We can imagine the nodes as pixels. The Hopfield network utilises physics that describes a material’s characteristics due to its atomic spin – a property that makes each atom a tiny magnet. The network as a whole is described in a manner equivalent to the energy in the spin system found in physics, and is trained by finding values for the connections between the nodes so that the saved images have low energy. When the Hopfield network is fed a distorted or incomplete image, it methodically works through the nodes and updates their values so the network’s energy falls. The network thus works stepwise to find the saved image that is most like the imperfect one it was fed with.
Geoffrey Hinton used the Hopfield network as the foundation for a new network that uses a different method: the Boltzmann machine. This can learn to recognise characteristic elements in a given type of data. Hinton used tools from statistical physics, the science of systems built from many similar components. The machine is trained by feeding it examples that are very likely to arise when the machine is run. The Boltzmann machine can be used to classify images or create new examples of the type of pattern on which it was trained. Hinton has built upon this work, helping initiate the current explosive development of machine learning.
“The laureates’ work has already been of the greatest benefit. In physics we use artificial neural networks in a vast range of areas, such as developing new materials with specific properties,” says Ellen Moons, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics.
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Illustration: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 (pdf)
Illustration: Natural and artificial neurons (pdf)
Illustration: Memories are stored in a landscape (pdf)
Illustration: Different types of network (pdf)
Read more about this year’s prize
Popular science background: They used physics to find patterns in information (pdf)
Scientific background: “For foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks” (pdf)
John J. Hopfield, born 1933 in Chicago, IL, USA. PhD 1958 from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. Professor at Princeton University, NJ, USA.
Geoffrey E. Hinton, born 1947 in London, UK. PhD 1978 from The University of Edinburgh, UK. Professor at University of Toronto, Canada.
Prize amount: 11 million Swedish kronor, to be shared equally between the laureates.
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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/press-release/
Geoffrey Hinton recién Premio Nobel de Física Explicando las grandes oportunidades y riesgos (para él potencialmente devastadores) de la explosión de la AI desarrollada gracias a sus redes neuronales.
https://www.rtve.es/play/videos/el-cazador-de-cerebros/02-06-24/16129904/
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