Nobel Prize ceremony begins; AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton to receive award

By Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press on December 10, 2024.

Nobel laureates in physics Geoffrey Hinton, left, and John J. Hopfield attend a Nobel Prize lecture in physics in Aula Magna, Stockholm University, Sweden, on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency via AP

The Nobel Prize ceremony in Sweden has begun and British Canadian AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton will shortly be given his award.

The presentation is being held at the Stockholm Concert Hall, where King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden is expected to bestow the award on Hinton and his physics prize co-laureate, John Hopfield.

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