U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian colleague Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that laid the foundation for machine learning, the award-giving body said on Tuesday.

Nobel Prize in physics awarded for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning and artificial neural networks.

A Canadian scientist who once warned artificial intelligence "might take over" if not developed responsibly joined a Princeton University professor in winning the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday.The awarders of the prize,