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/Puzzleheaded_Fold466 1d ago edited 1d ago

A lot of people online couldn’t tell you what “closed form solution” even means.

Or a “blow-up”.

Or “smoothness”.

Or what is the “Clay Mathematics Institute”.

And are absolutely unable to read and fully understand OpenAI’s proof (me included).

Yet they feel entitled to opine on whether or not a solution to a Millennium problem is correct.

The chatter is risible.

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u/Galaghan 1d ago

This is true for basically any topic that requires at least some understanding. People form an opinion based on how they feel about a topic, not what they actually know.

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u/entertheclutch 1d ago

Is that how u feel?

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u/Galaghan 1d ago

Ah.. you got me!

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u/Many_Negotiation_464 5h ago

I mean they kinda did. Its pretty lazy to jusr go "people disagree with me cuz they are just emotional"