You have to build up from the bottom. If you were doing weather, you would say, well, I want to understand what storms are without going back to interacting air nitrogen molecules.

— John Hopfield, John Hopfield on the 2024 Noble Prize in Physics for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (2024)

Source: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/hopfield/interview/

From a Nobel Prize web interview on the 2024 physics prize.

Topics: complexity