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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As the guy above you mentioned, the prize is for progressing the field of physics, biology, math etc. not for knowing the field the best. They used an unrelated technology to advance those fields in a novel and significant way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's just a tool. Inventing a hammer doesn't make you a carpenter, the same way that developing an LLM doesn't make you a physicist or chemist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, but the first person who invented the hammer would absolutely deserve a carpentry prize if they built a new type of chair with the hammer as proof of the usefulness of their new tool.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Not really, no. But it's ok. You do you.