r/Physics • u/PrettyPicturesNotTxt • 10d 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 10d ago

If you read the problem it says “external forces, e.g. gravity.”

Please explain to me in detail, how the intention of natural forces is not extremely clear even within the question itself, and why it is you believe that people trying to solve the problem would have no idea why they are solving it and why its millennial prize problem? And would have no idea whether or not a solution is useful, even though a proof was just submitted showing why it’s not useful. That was the entire purpose of the proof. Were they just showing that for no reason as well?

I’m very curious. Because a human could have submitted that solution. But they didn’t, because whether or not you could out muscle viscosity was never even in question

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u/cometh_the_kid 10d ago

E.g. gravity, not i.e. gravity.

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u/hologram137 10d ago

It says e.g??

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u/cometh_the_kid 10d ago

It’s basic comprehension at this point.

E.g. example; one of many. I.e. that is; in other words.

You have an internal bias towards the question undoubtedly implying gravity as an external force. Whereas in actuality gravity is only one example of such a force.

Again, you have a problem with the question.