On October 8 local time, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it will award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John J. Hopfield of Princeton University in the United States and Geoffrey E. Hinton of the University of Toronto in Canada, in recognition of their "fundamental discoveries and inventions for machine learning using artificial neural networks." The two winners will split the prize 11 million Swedish krona (about 7.45 million yuan). It is reported that Geoffrey Hinton is the winner of the 2018 Turing Award and is known in the industry as a deep learning giant and the godfather of AI. Ilya Sutskever, the former chief scientist of ChatGPT, studied with Geoffrey Hinton.