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I don't understand.

Hopfield and Hinton aren't physicists, and their work wasn't a breakthrough in physics.

Hopfield is in molecular biology and Hinton is in computer science, and their breakthrough was in computing / engineering.

How are they getting a *physics* #Nobel?

Physicists doing actual physics shouldn't be overlooked because the committee wanted to give an AI prize and Nobel prizes don't come in "engineering".