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The artificial intelligence topic has found its way into the global stage of a Nobel Prize ceremony after two leaders have been awarded for making significant contributions in developing AI. 

Professors John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton have won the Nobel Prize for Physics; meanwhile, Demis Hassabis, David Baker, and John Jumper have won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

Hopfield, professor of Princeton University, and Hinton, University of Toronto professor and famously known as the “Godfather of AI,” won the award for their discoveries in machine learning, a branch of computer science that contributed to the development of artificial intelligence. 

The trio of scientists who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry used AI to understand the concept of proteins, dubbed the “chemical tools of life.” DeepMind’s Hassabis and Jumper developed the AI model to predict the three-dimensional structure of 200 million proteins’ complex structures.

According to the report from CNN, DeepMind’s AI program, the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, acted as a “Google search” for the protein structure, which also simultaneously boosted the progress in biology and other branches of science. 

Both the teams of scientists who have won the Nobel Prize have been rewarded a cash prize of $1 million.