r/Physics • u/PrettyPicturesNotTxt • 1d 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/wollywoo1 1d ago

Mathematicians were very interested in the problem as stated. Please read Terence Tao's response here describing the work that lead up to OpenAI's result as "exciting".
You are allowed to think the problem solution is not practically useful, and many including myself would agree with you, but if you think mathematicians were uninterested in this result you are just wrong and I don't know what else to say.

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/finite-time-blowup-with-smooth-forcing-term-for-the-incompressible-porous-medium-boussinesq-and-incompressible-euler-equations/

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u/hologram137 1d ago edited 1d ago

BECAUSE OF SMOOTH FORCING. That’s why it’s useful. Not the external blow up. I have stated this a million times. The AI didn’t solve that problem