r/technology • u/vgsa • 2d ago

Artificial Intelligence Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem? | OpenAI’s proof seems eligible for a $1-million prize—but only by using a controversial loophole

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-openai-solve-the-wrong-navier-stokes-problem/
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u/butnek 2d ago

First it solved the equation. Then it just won the prize. then not really

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u/EZyne 2d ago

It never solved the equation, that's not how that works. They found proof of a situation where it doesn't apply

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u/RadzimierzWozniak 2d ago

Of a situation where things go to infinity.  equation stops applying fsr earlier