American scientist John Hopfield and his British-Canadian colleague Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 for their discoveries and inventions that laid the foundations for automatic learning. teleSUR
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00:00And in Sweden, scientist British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton and U.S. John Hopefield won
00:05the Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering work in the development of machine learning.
00:10One of the laureates held a phone conversation about their current achievements on a press
00:14briefing.
00:15I think it will have a huge influence.
00:18It will be comparable with the Industrial Revolution, but instead of exceeding people
00:24in physical strength, it's going to exceed people in intellectual ability.
00:29We have no experience of what it's like to have things smarter than us, and it's going
00:36to be wonderful in many respects.
00:38In areas like healthcare, it's going to give us much better healthcare.
00:42In almost all industries, it's going to make them more efficient.
00:46People are going to be able to do the same amount of work with an AI assistant in much
00:50less time.
00:51It will mean huge improvements in productivity, but we also have to worry about a number of
00:59possible bad consequences, particularly the threat of these things getting out of control.