OpenAI Says Its AI Solved a Millennium Prize Problem
OpenAI said the internal model used 10,000 agents and millions of dollars in compute, while rival mathematicians dispute the credit.
- OpenAI announced that its AI solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem after about 88 hours of computation using approximately 10,000 agents and extensive computing resources.
- Mathematicians Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge had prior related progress on fluid dynamics problems and raised concerns that OpenAI rushed its solution after learning about their work, sparking controversy about research credit and data use.
- OpenAI denied accessing Buckmaster and Alpöge's unpublished work or private data, recognizing their contributions but stating that the AI-generated solution was significantly different in nature.
- The event marks a major breakthrough in mathematics and highlights challenges in credit and ethical disputes as AI increasingly tackles complex proofs despite high computational costs.
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A.I. May Have Solved a Longstanding Math Problem With a Million-Dollar Prize. It Ignited a Controversy Over Who Gets Credit
OpenAI announced a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem. But could its A.I. models have used data from two mathematicians working on a similar breakthrough?
OpenAI has achieved a result on a mathematical problem that has been unsolved for nearly 90 years. Ten thousand AI agents worked on it for just 88 hours.
OpenAI issued a paper claiming that an undeclared artificial intelligence model was able to solve the problem of the existence and smoothness of Navier-Stocks' equations, one of the problems of the Millennium Prize of the Clay Institute of Mathematics. The importance of the subject is crystal ball: OpenAI issued a paper claiming that an undeclared artificial intelligence model was able to solve the problem of the existence and smoothness of Navi…
Mathematics: OpenAI claims to have solved one of the greatest mathematical riddles. It concerns the Navier-Stokes problem, which by ten thousand…
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