[legel]

Restricted Boltzmann Machines were a huge revolution in the field, warranting a publication in Science in 2006. If you want to know what the field looks like back then, here it is: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/science.pdf

I remember in 2012 for my MS thesis on Deep Neural Networks spending several pages on Boltzmann Machines and the physics-inspired theories of Geoffrey Hinton.

My undergraduate degree was in physics.

So, yes, I think this is an absolutely stunning award. The connections between statistical entropy (inspired by thermodynamics) and also of course from biophysics of human neural networks should not be lost here.

Anyways, congratulations to Geoffrey Hinton. And also, since physics is the language of physical systems, why not expand the definition of the field to include the "physics of intelligence"?

From their official explanation page (https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/09/advanced-physicsp...): "With ANNs the boundaries of physics are extended to host phenomena of life as well as computation."

[theGnuMe]

Yeah I agree with the 2006 Hinton paper. I read it and reread it and didn't get it. I didn't have the math background at the time and it inspired me to get it. And here I am almost 20 years later working on it.