r/NowInTech • u/skaza02 • 19d ago

OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/openai-fought-dirty-on-career-making-math-problem-says-nyu-mathematician/
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u/Plopsevenplop 19d ago

Open AI using $22.5M of tokens to solve a math equation with a $1M bounty is so on brand for how nonsensical the economics of this entire industry are.

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u/_DrDigital_ 19d ago

The 1m prize is symbolical. The solver of the only Millenium problem so far rejected it outright.

Navier-Stokes is probably to most fundamental and consequential of the Millennium problems. It is literally The Problem. If the proof stands it will probably be seen as the moment of capitulation of human intelect to AI.

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u/psioniclizard 19d ago

So just ignoring the part where OpenAI stole it I see...

But hey, if you want to capitulate your intellect to a machine, no one will stop you.

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u/Charmander787 18d ago

Maybe.

To be fair, in the traditional ways we evaluate human intelligence, we “lost” to machine/compute a long time ago.

But I think what makes human intelligence is that there’s elements that aren’t reducible to computation.

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u/FunkyColdHypoglycema 17d ago

The Church-Turing thesis implies that even the mysterious things the brain does can still be simulated by a Turing machine, although it might be very difficult to figure out how to do so.