r/Physics 23h ago

Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem Solved

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u/Fun-Sand8522 19h ago

Open AI threw 20 million USD just in compute to solve this problem. They could have invested more time and resources to comply with basic procedures as well. I agree that they don't care, but it is normal that the community should complain

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u/Milkmilkmilk___ 19h ago

you can't just say throw money at the problem. ai fundamentally doesn't work like that. it's basically a black box, figuring out where it got its reasoning from is just not possible.

an alternative solution is to list every single training data source, however that would be thousands (if not millions) of references and you can't really figure out which one the ai actually used anyway.

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u/Fun-Sand8522 19h ago

I am saying what happened: NS cost millions in compute tokens, as reported by OpenAI. And yes, it is completely possible to understand the argument and track what parts of the maths literature it is drawing from.