Google acquired the company, incorporated by Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever and Hinton in 2012, for its research on deep neural networks. Also known as “deep learning” for computers, this research ...

Mimicking the brain AI has become shorthand for machine learning using artificial neural networks. This technology – developed by Hopfield and Hinton – is based on the structure of the brain.

The 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to John J. Hopfield, Geoffrey E. Hinton for work on enable machine learning with artificial neural networks ; other categories to be announced soon.