OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’ (Navier-Stokes)

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For decades math was just numbers. There weren't letters or fancy squiggles. You added one to one and you got two. That was normal.

But now the people in charge are saying a robot has solved something called a Navier-Stokes. It's interesting isn't it, that it is so close to Javier and strokes. They say it's math, but when I was a kid, there were no Mexicans or stroking in math, let alone Mexicans stroking. It's completely grotesque.

Think about that for a second. If so called Mexicans and so called stroking are so important to math then why are the "experts" only talking about this now? Was there a vote? Did someone ever ask you whether you wanted Javier added to the times tables? Or stroking to long division? Does this make our lives better in any way? Will a "Navier-Stokes" help you pay your mortage?

Of course it won't. You can't help but laugh at how obvious it is. Maybe, just maybe, the whole thing helps Javier pay his mortage, at your expense.

It's a calculated radical left distraction from the fact that if Americans learn math – real math, just numbers without all the letters and fancy stuff – they will add one grocery bill plus one grocery bill and realize they aren't getting two anymore. They're getting three.

This whole thing leaves us with a system that cares more about fluid dynamics than our precious bodily fluids. Or what about our "fluid" milk prices? Unlike what liberals say about gravity, those somehow always manage to flow up. They want you to look at the squiggles on the chalkboard so you don't look at the numbers on your bank statement. It is a total, unmitigated scam. And the most terrifying part? They aren't even trying to hide it anymore.

The significance of this breakthrough isn't that it will change how we build planes or cars or do climate science or anything, but it does push the bounds of what AI is capable of doing with mathematics. From the first part of the article:

OpenAI said on Tuesday that its newest artificial intelligence technology had solved one of the “Millennium Problems,” a collection of important unanswered math questions meant to push the world’s leading mathematicians to new heights.

The announcement is an another clear sign that A.I. is fundamentally changing the upper reaches of mathematics, which have long been viewed as a pinnacle of human achievement. The change has excited some mathematicians, while stirring concern among others.

Over the past year, A.I. systems successfully solved a wide range of problems that have bedeviled mathematicians for decades. But these problems were not as complex, nor as closely watched, as the one that OpenAI’s technology has solved over the past several days. The Millennium Problems are among the most heavily researched in the field.

“This is a spectacular culmination of the arc we have seen over the past twelve months,” OpenAI researcher Sébastien Bubeck said of the company’s new solution.

The company announced that one of its latest models, which has not yet been released to the public, needed just 88 hours to solve what mathematicians call “the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem.” This problem involves a series of equations that are often used to predict the weather.The equations describe the movement of water and other fluids. The Navier-Stokes problem, which has no clear practical value, asks whether these equations completely break down in certain situations. OpenAI’s proof claims to have defined just such a situation.

This would imply, at least theoretically, that the laws of physics themselves would break down under certain conditions: that, for example, water could be made to spontaneously explode. But mathematicians and physicists do not believe that this mathematical breakdown could really lead to such an outcome in the physical world.

The Navier-Stokes problem was one of seven “Millennium Problems” selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute in the year 2000 as a way of tracking the progress of mathematics in the new millennium. The institute, founded by an American businessman named Landon T. Clay, offered a million dollars for the first correct solution to each problem. Before OpenAI’s announcement, only one of the problems had been solved.