Nobel Prize goes to scientists' work on machine learning

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two scientists, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, for their work on machine learning.

The announcement was made by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at a press conference in Stockholm, Sweden.

Machine learning is key to artificial intelligence as it develops how a computer can train itself to generate information.

It drives a vast range of technology that we use today from how we search the internet to editing photographs on our phones.

The winners share a prize fund worth 11m Swedish kronor (£810,000)

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