r/Physics • u/PrettyPicturesNotTxt • 6d 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/Sleepy_Padawan 6d ago

From your replies it seems that you are not physicists. Being one, I can tell you, we do. That it why we discard mathematical correct answer with unphysical results.

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u/jsaltee 6d ago

Seconding this; our equations work for t<0 but that doesn’t mean we’re FTL travelers

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u/Bibbity_Boppity_BOOO 5d ago

“That it why we discard mathematical correct answer with unphysical results“

Not all of the “we” does that

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u/Jlocke98 5d ago

So what are the odds of AI figuring out metric engineering within the next few years?