Geoffrey Hinton Has Used His Nobel Prize Winnings to Create a New Award for A.I.

Geoffrey Hinton, the recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, is donating some of his newfound award winnings to establish a separate prize benefitting young machine learning researchers. Hinton and his co-winner John Hopfield received the prize in October for their contributions to the field of A.I.—an honor that was accompanied by 11 million Swedish krona ($1 million) in prize money for the two winners to share. A portion of Hinton’s $500,000 will fund the newly created Sejnowski-Hinton Prize, an annual prize of $10,000 that will be given out...