Hopfield is enormously influential, I don’t mind him getting a major prize at all. Physics seems weird tho.
The “everything is physics” crowd is awfully silent right now 🤔
Lucky 10000: this integration started decades ago. You may have heard of “computational trinitarianism” or read Baez & Stay 2009. The current big listing of correspondences is called the computational trilogy. Don’t let the Nobel committee’s foolishness blind you to the genuine connections between computer science and physics.
AI is poisoning science development. It is not necessary that everything uses AI ffs!!
Nobel prize in Physics for attempting to use physics in AI but it didn’t really work very well and then one of the guys working on a better more pure mathematics approach that actually worked and got the Turing Award for the latter, but that’s not what the prize is for, while the other guy did some other work, but that is not what the prize is for. AI will solve all physics!!!111
ah yes, the dynamite guy award show, a fine institution of the ages