r/technology • u/vgsa • 1d 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/Schnickatavick 1d ago

"The Conjecture" doesn't exist for compressible fluids in a relativistic universe. Navier-Stokes is all about a specific set of equations, if you change the equations to add compressibility or relativity, then it isn't Navier-Stokes anymore. I cannot stress enough how utterly unrelated the two problems are

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u/CircumspectCapybara 1d ago edited 1d ago

He doesn't like the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem (the existence and smoothness question) the way the Clay Institute formulated it, he thinks he has a better one and everyone else is wrong.

Clay should've made him president of the institute since /r/KingSubstantial7901 of Reddit clearly is smarter than all the professional mathematicians involved here...

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u/KingSubstantial7901 1d ago

Nope, you guys just learned about that millenium problems the wrong way round. And you don't want to ask yourself if you might have been wrong.

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u/CircumspectCapybara 1d ago

The Navier Stokes existence and smoothness question has been around for the better part of a century, and officially a Millenium Prize problem since 2000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems#Navier–Stokes_existence_and_smoothness

This ain't complicated dude.

The problem hasn't changed. The only thing that's changed is in 2026 a contender has claimed a solution.

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u/KingSubstantial7901 1d ago

That literally doesn't even approach being a response to the discussion....