Artificial Intelligence and the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics

Artificial intelligence originated in the 1950s with the aim of creating machines that simulated human intelligence. Initially it was an extremely theoretical area of research with research initially focused more on logic. Later the study underwent a great evolution until we arrived at neural networks. A neural network is a subset of machine learning in which algorithms reside and which perform specific tasks, for example, in industrial automation. Neural networks are so called because although they are technological concepts, their inspiration is directly related to the human brain and the model of synapses of our neurons to make connections.

Methodological Procedures

The method used to obtain information on the Internet was bibliographic research on the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) website which is a consolidated project for electronic publishing of scientific journals following the Open Access model which makes the full texts of scientific journal articles available free of charge on the Internet. A second source of data was the Google Scholar search system which provided a simple way to search academic literature comprehensively.

The third source of data was the library of the Hermínio Ometto Foundation (FHO) where books on neural networks related to the Computer Engineering course were researched.