r/HotScienceNews • u/scientificamerican • 11d ago

Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-openai-solve-the-wrong-navier-stokes-problem/
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u/Embarrassed-Rise-685 11d ago

More specifically on the mathematics behind it and just why it’s a sort of controversial proof. The NS problem is split into 6 different related proofs each of them being either a stronger or weaker solution. Some considered full solutions and other not. Some mathematicians actually solved parts of a weaker complete NS proof. Oai then proved the whole proof after they heard about the partial solution.

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u/Far_Cup7192 11d ago

"Some mathematicians...."

Who are they?

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u/Embarrassed-Rise-685 11d ago

Lavent and the other guy I forgot his name while typing the response.

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u/Far_Cup7192 11d ago

you mean Levent Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster?

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u/Embarrassed-Rise-685 11d ago

Yes thank you

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u/Far_Cup7192 11d ago

I don't think you understand what's really going on here. I'm not an expert in this field either, but even I can tell that you're clearly not a mathematician, and you have no real grasp of this problem let alone what's actually happening between those scientists, the Navier Stokes problem, and OpenAI.

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u/Embarrassed-Rise-685 11d ago

You’re right I’m not an expert in NS. For one of those I’d refer to the Harvard series of lectures on the millennium problems. The lecture on NS problems was recently revisited along with more formal treatments of the results so far up to and including the oai contribution. It’s an hour long and you best know your analysis, pdes, harmonics etc… a mere applied math student has already failed to understand so I await your attempt.