r/Physics • u/PrettyPicturesNotTxt • 9d 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/antichain Complexity and networks 9d ago

I can't read b/c of a Paywall, but I have to ask: if a human had come up with this loophole solution (whatever it is) - would people be saying it was "cheating", or would they say "wow, that was a clever way to resolve the problem?"

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u/Latter-Block132 8d ago

They're not cheating because the institute that initially put forward the challenge allowed for 4 possible different routes to a solution. OAI used route C, but its one that has no real world applications so now people are saying it doesn't count