Did AI just win the Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry?

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The importance of the expert eye in scientific progress

As every year, there was a lot of excitement for the Nobel prizes last month. Scrolling through X, what stood out for me were the comments about the winners for physics and chemistry. While all were laudatory about the researchers and their work, many pointed out that these prizes were not really a recognition of their own achievements but of something else entirely: artificial intelligence (AI).