What is Navier-Stokes, the ‘Millennium Problem’ cracked by OpenAI
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OpenAI said on Sept 8 that its newest AI technology had solved one of the “Millennium Problems” - a collection of important unanswered math questions.
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Cade Metz
- OpenAI announced it solved the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of seven Millennium Problems with a US$1 million prize.
- The problem studies equations describing fluid and gas movement, crucial for weather and climate predictions, but parts remain mathematically unresolved.
- OpenAI’s solution suggests fluid equations could theoretically break down, implying extreme scenarios like water particles reaching infinite velocity, though not observed in reality.
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On Sept 8, OpenAI announced that its latest AI technology, which has not yet been released to the public, solved an enormously complex math problem called “the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem”. Mathematicians sometimes call it “Navier-Stokes” for short.
Here is a brief guide to the problem.
