Pioneers in artificial intelligence win Nobel Prize in physics

(8 Oct 2024)
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Stockholm - 8 October 2024
1. Panel entering room, taking seats
2. Camera operator
3.SOUNDBITE (English) Hans Ellegren, Secretary-General, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences:
"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has today decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics to John Hopfield, Princeton University USA and Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto, Canada, for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks."
4. Screen showing winners John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton
5. Wide of panel with Hans Ellegren and others
6. Close of camera
7. Various of images on screen
8. Screen showing image of Geoffrey Hinton UPSOUND (English) of phone call:
Ellegren: "Good morning. Please accept our warmest congratulations to receiving the Nobel Prize in physics."
Hinton: "Thank you very much"
Ellegren: "How do you feel right now?"
Hinton: "I'm flabbergasted. I had no idea this would happen. I'm very surprised."
Ellegren. "Yeah. I could imagine."
9. Pan of room
10. Screen showing image of Geoffrey Hinton UPSOUND (English) of phone call:
"We have no experience of what it's like to have things smarter than us. It's going to be wonderful in many respects. In areas like health care, it's going to give us much better health care. In almost all industries it's going to make them more efficient. People are going to be able to see the same range of work with an AI assistant in much less time. It'll mean huge improvements in productivity. But we also have to worry about a number of possible bad consequences, particularly the threat of these things getting out of control."
11. Screen showing image of winners John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton
12. Various of Mark Pearce, Prof. of Astro Particle Physics, and Nobel Physics Committee member
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Pearce, Prof. of Astro Particle Physics, and Nobel Physics Committee member:
"So I think it's fair to say that these two gentlemen were really the pioneers. They were the persons who did the fundamental work based on physical understanding, which has led to the revolution we see today in machine learning and artificial intelligence."
13. Close of Pearce
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Pearce, Prof. of Astro Particle Physics, and Nobel Physics Committee member:
"I would say that these two gentlemen were those who applied the laws of physics to a biologically inspired system, the neural network, and understood that it could be taught and it could be trained using data and it could be then be used to, for example, as we see today, answer questions, make images, medical diagnoses, all these sorts of things. So they had the the original idea and now it's grown into this big industry which we see today."
15. Tilt down of Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 sign
16. Various exteriors of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences building
STORYLINE:
Two pioneers of artificial intelligence have won the Nobel Prize in physics.

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the prize Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning.

Hinton said he was flabbergasted at being honoured.

He said AI was revolutionizing the way we work and live but also creates new threats to humanity.

The physics prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a bequest left by the award’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.

Six days of Nobel announcements opened Monday with Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun winning the medicine prize.

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