OpenAI claims it solved Navier-Stokes math problem
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An NYU math professor claims the AI behemoth rushed to solve the problem after discovering his progress.
For decades, researchers wondered if the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe fluid flow, break down. OpenAI put thousands of agents on the question.
The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics.
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People who think that math is boring don't know what they're talking about. This week, in particular, a solution to one of the complex Millennium Prize Problems might have been put forward by the artificial intelligence company OpenAI.
OpenAI said today that it has found an AI-generated solution to one of the biggest problems in mathematics —a 200-year-old equation that describes the natural behavior of fluids like water and air.
Professor Tristan Buckmaster said he and Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge have spent much of the past year working on the Navier-Stokes problem.
A mathematician compared the feat to the history-making chess competition in which IBM’s Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov in 1997
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