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The Journey to the Nobel Prize
Awoken by a call in the dead of night, Hinton learned he had won the Nobel Prize, a feat he humbly admits he never envisioned, particularly in physics. His true ambition was to decipher the workings of the human brain, a task that remains elusive. Yet, his work effectively transformed the paradigm of AI through the introduction of neural networks capable of predicting the next word in a sequence — the very foundation of today's advanced language models.