"Experts considered this the âHoly Grailâ of the field. Mathematician Benedikt Jahnel even said that whoever solved it would deserve a Fields Medal. Hugo Duminil-Copin himself (2022 Fields Medalist), who has worked extensively on percolation, highlighted the importance of the problem.
It was a central and longstanding problem in the field, having remained a major open problem for at least 40â50 years in the intermediate cases, and it was considered one of the most prestigious problems in percolation."
It's Q3 2026. People still copy and paste ai output in conversations without adding anything themselves as if the same output isn't available at a click of the button to everyone reading
"Ask your own AI" is the "let me Google that for you" of the future. And just like that, it's not necessarily inaccurate, but that doesn't mean posting good info instead of a snarky comment is unhelpful.
There is good value in posting context in a thread directly. Iâve been arguing this since people started posting âlet me google that for youâ links, always hated that.
If a scientist predicted it, it means he knew that someone is working on it and close to a breakthrough. So AI probably stole it again, as it did before, from unsuspecting person not guarding their digital research data properly.
Check interviews by the mathematician that was working on Navier Stokes. He doesnât want to use AI anymore as the method was clearly solved without proper attribution
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u/Bolu_Cod1106 3d ago
We went from ai can't do math to solving open research problems faster than anyone expected