Welcome to Learning English, a daily 30 minute program from the Voice of America.

I'm Ashley Thompson.

And I'm Mario Ritter Jr.

This program is designed for English learners

so we speak a little slower and we use words and phrases especially written for people learning English.

On today's program, we tell you about the latest recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics.

Later, Mario Ritter Jr. and Katie Weaver present this week's education report.

We close the show with the lesson of the day.

But first, two early developers of artificial intelligence have won this

year's Nobel Prize in Physics. American John Hopfield is with Princeton University in New Jersey.

Jeffrey Hinton is a citizen of Canada and Britain who works at the University of Toronto.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored them for helping to develop methods that are the foundation of today's

powerful machine learning.

The 76 year old Hinton is known as the godfather of artificial intelligence for his part in developing machine learning.

However, he also has warned that AI has created threats to humanity.

Ellen Moon's is a member of the Nobel Committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Moon's said the two scientists used fundamental concepts from statistical physics to design artificial

neural networks that function as associative memories and find patterns in large data sets.

Moon's added that their research has been used to make progress in physics, but has also become part of people's daily lives.

Technologies like facial recognition and language translation are used every day.

Hinton predicted that AI would have a huge influence on civilization and will bring improvements to productivity and health care.

He told reporters and Royal Academy officials that it would be comparable to the Industrial Revolution.

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