I read somewhere that it is a case of programming that utilizes the computer itself differently - guess that's "physics" in a science sense. It feels like they stretched it to acknowledge the "momentous importance" of AI, and cater to the one of them who issued serious warnings about the risks of AI.
With all the advances in quantum physics, you would think there was enough fodder there for a real physics topic. There are 6 categories for Nobel Prizes. None of them are really CS categories. Live with it Nobel Committee, don't make up new categories!
They did almost the same thing in Chemistry. The nobel went to David Baker, a biochemist but it also went to employees of Google Deepmind who developed an AI program that predicted the steps needed to synthesize proteins (Alphafold-2). What in the hell? Is this about taping into AI funding?
I read somewhere that it is a case of programming that utilizes the computer itself differently - guess that's "physics" in a science sense. It feels like they stretched it to acknowledge the "momentous importance" of AI, and cater to the one of them who issued serious warnings about the risks of AI.