OpenAI says it cracked a maths puzzle that has eluded humans for decades in about 88 hours
OpenAI claims its unreleased AI model successfully solved the Navier-Stokes problem, a long-standing mathematical puzzle related to fluid dynamics. The achievement is currently awaiting rigorous peer review by the mathematical community.
Why it matters
Solving a Millennium Prize Problem represents a major breakthrough in computational science with potential applications in weather forecasting and aerospace engineering.
OPENAI HAS SAID that one of its unreleased artificial intelligence models solved a mathematical puzzle that has eluded mathematicians for generations, in a claim which also drew a fight with rival researchers over credit.
Researchers at OpenAI said it took just days – and millions of dollars in computing power – to crack what is known as the Navier-Stokes problem.
Navier-Stokes is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, a list of the hardest open questions in mathematics drawn up by the Clay Mathematics Institute.
It concerns the equations describing how fluids such as air and water move, which are used in aircraft design, weather forecasting and the study of blood flow. It has been unsolved for around 90 years.
OpenAI said its work showed that these equations can break down over time, answering the question as set out by the Millennium Prize.
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