On Tuesday, American John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their groundbreaking contributions to the field of artificial intelligence.

Based on their groundbreaking discoveries and ideas that make machine learning possible using artificial neural networks, the panel named the two winners.

As stated in a statement by the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, this year's two Nobel Laureates in Physics have employed physics tools to develop techniques that form the basis of today's potent machine learning.

The 91-year-old Princeton University professor Hopfield attracted notice for creating an associative memory that can recognize and reproduce patterns in data, including images.

The verdict stated that Hinton, a 76-year-old University of Toronto professor, created a technique that can independently detect attributes in data and carry out tasks like recognizing particular objects in images.

I can't believe that... In a phone interview, Hinton told reporters, "I had no idea that could happen" when the award winners were announced in Stockholm.

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Carl XVI Gustaf, the king of Sweden, will present the two with their awards on December 10, the anniversary of the death of physicist Alfred Nobel in 1896, who instituted the prizes in his last testament.

The study of electrons inside atoms and molecules using ultra-quick light flashes was the subject of last year's Physics Nobel Prize in Physics, which was shared by Frenchman Pierre Agostini, Hungarian-Austrian Ferenc Krausz, and Franco-Swede Anne L'Huillier.

The chemistry prize winner, or winners, will be announced on Wednesday. Then, on Thursday, the much-awaited prizes for literature and peace will be announced, and on Friday, the Nobel season will continue.

On Monday, October 14, the Economics Prize concludes.

The Nobel Prizes have been awarded since 1901 to people who, in the words of scientist and prize founder Alfred Nobel, "conferred the greatest benefit on humankind."