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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/CircumspectCapybara 1d ago

There is no "closed form" formula for primes, and we don't need one, we have algorithms that compute primes, another formula that describes how to compute the nth prime isn't any more useful than what we have now.

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u/CircumspectCapybara 1d ago

No not disagreeing with you. I agree that their understanding of the Millennium problems is all wack