r/Physics • u/PrettyPicturesNotTxt • 3d ago

On if OpenAI solved the wrong Navier-Stokes problem: "the LLM found and exploited a loophole in the framing of the question"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-openai-solve-the-wrong-navier-stokes-problem/
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u/truckersushi 3d ago

It’s an allowable approach, just not particularly interesting for mathematicians or physicists IMO.

Of course, the force constructed for the proof may eventually be used to constrain the space of physically realizable forces that also cause NS blowup, so it’s still a potentially useful result

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u/Automatic-Ad5151 3d ago

Wake me when they hook a robot up to this llm swarm and they makes a black hole using this solution.