Hossenfelder comments: "A quick comment on the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics which was awarded for the basis of neural networks and artificial intelligence. Well deserved, but is it physics?" She also wonders if this does't reflect (what she regards as) the dismal state of current work in the foundations of physics and points out that physicists have been using neural networks for years as tools.
Herbert Simon won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978 for "for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations." The Nobel Committee did not mention his work in Artificial Intelligence. But would he have gotten the prize without that work?