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A screen shows the laureates of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, US physicist John J Hopfield (L) and Canadian-British computer scientist and cognitive psychologist Geoffrey E Hinton, during the announcement at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden on October 8, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)
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