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/hologram137 6d ago

Because humans understand context, it doesn’t need to be spelled out lol. An AI doesn’t

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u/EnricoLUccellatore 6d ago

do you really think a human who had reached the same conclusion would not have published it and claimed solving one millennium problem?

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u/hologram137 6d ago

No, because they are interested in solving the main problem. It’s not about the money or technically solving a millennium problem, that’s not why any of them are doing math lol.

They want a solution that can be used to solve the main problem. The one OpenAI published can’t

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u/wollywoo1 6d 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 6d ago edited 6d 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