Both of the men who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics are artificial intelligence pioneers — and one of them is considered the technology’s “godfather.”As Reuters reports, American physicist John Hopfield and AI expert Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the coveted prize this week. Considered the “godfather of AI,” Hinton’s research in 2012 laid the groundwork for today’s neural networks — but in 2023, he quit his job at Google to join a chorus of critics sounding alarm bells about the technology.In an interview with the New York Times last year about…
