Pioneers in artificial intelligence win Nobel Prize in physics

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Pioneers in artificial intelligence win Nobel Prize in physics

STOCKHOLM (AP): Two pioneers of artificial intelligence (AI) – John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton – won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live...

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