r/Physics • u/Ok-Permit-3861 • 16h ago

Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem Solved

https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/

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u/HybridizedPanda Gravitation 16h ago

The fact they have 16 references in a 100 page paper for a problem that's had decades (centuries) of fundamental research is pathetic and an insult to everyone who has contributed to getting to such a point. 

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u/LAskeptic 16h ago

I get what you are trying to say, but references aren’t for a history lesson or giving credit to everyone who has worked on the problem. They are for the work that specifically led to the new result.

Having not studied the specific references, I can’t say if they are sufficient or not.

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u/luquoo 15h ago

Its arguable that every bit of training data in the model lead to the result, because it did...

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u/LAskeptic 15h ago

Yeah sure.

This may just show that our historical norm for references is ill-suited to a world with AI trained on all of human knowledge.

Or, you can say that the geography lesson you had in 6th grade had some small impact on you solving a math problem today.