Artificial intelligence (AI) jumped into the upper echelons of scientific achievement this week, winning as part of the Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry. The awards highlight the impact the technology is making in every aspect of our lives but have also sparked debate and even outrage on social media by researchers about how AI is related to these scientific disciplines. “I’m speechless. I like machine learning and artificial neural networks as much as the next person, but hard to see that this is a physics discovery,” Jonathan Pritchard, an astrophysicist at Imperial College London wrote…