The 2024 Physics Prize is not being awarded for backpropagation but “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial ne

The 2024 Physics Prize is not being awarded for backpropagation but “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”. They seem to be focusing on energy function, statistical mechanics connection, etc. of Hopfield Nets and Boltzmann machines. An auxiliary motivation seems to be the use of ANN:s becoming a significant tool for very-big-data physics. Nobel Foundation descriptions (from discussion at the announcement https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775463 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775463 ): https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/09/advanced-physicsprize2024.pdf https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/09/advanced-physicsp... https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/summary/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/summary/