Nobel prize jumping on the bandwagon, just like they did for mRNA after covid. At least that was related to medicine.
The first 2 paragraphs of the linked pdf read like a joke. Like it’s a parody announcement.
Of course the price is really for MLP backpropagation (or how it found applications) but I guess it's not physics enough.
Hopfield networks never really found use either, but they are sort of related to Ising models and NNs, so I guess it's physics then.
One could argue it's closer to mathematics than physics, but if you'd say to him that someone made sand think like a human he might even put it under the medicine category.
All other prizes are awarded in Sweden by Swedish academy(for literature) , Royal Swedish Academy for sciences (physics and chemistry) , karolinska institute (physiology) are all professionally established organizations at the time of Nobel’s death with other activities professional organizations do.
Norwegian Nobel committee while in theory independent is just people appointed by the parliament with no need to have professional standing in their field on which they are supposed to award the prize in and it always shows .
Obama’s prize is hardly the first egregious one or even the most outrageous Henry Kissinger got one .
So it kind of matters on the changed standards in swedish technical ones while peace has been disaster for half century or more , with non transparent process selected by ex- MPs
Unless the process of selection of the committee (unqualified, political) and process of selection of the winner(opaque and inconsistent criteria) is fixed we will have poor candidates winning it in the future too
Unlike the economic prize peace was one that Alfred Noble actually wanted himself to be an award given too.
One could also argue peace prize should be the most important of them all. Noble wished to mitigate the military application of his invention, the peace prize should be achieving that most.
The continued poor judgment of the parliament in selecting the committee and the committee in selecting winners devalues the prize for future winners and devalues the good work the Swedish institutions have put in making it the premier award in their fields
Nor did Jack Kilby's invention of the IC, but they still gave it to him.
You could probably argue the same for the invention of the transistor...
But I agree, this feels like a stretch.