- Edited
What’s going on with this year’s Nobel Prizes? We can totally see headlines going round like “AI wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics” (and half of Chemistry too, it turns out!). Technically this is not too far off: on October 8th, the Physics Nobel was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks” (and on 9th October, it was announced that the Chemistry Nobel will be shared between David Baker and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, the latter for using AI “for protein structure prediction”). The big question that is dividing experts and the public is: is AI research Physics? Read quantum physicist Gerardo Adesso's post.