OpenAI's AI-driven Navier-Stokes result draws anger from mathematicians
Original titleOpenAI spent millions to solve this famous math problem — mathematicians are furious
OpenAI announced that a swarm of 10,000 agents produced a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem, a result that angered mathematicians.
NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic-employed collaborator Levent Alpöge had been working on related problems and released three draft papers of about 245 pages.
Buckmaster said OpenAI's offer to merge efforts required acknowledging an OpenAI model and excluded Alpöge as co-author.
The piece separates the mathematical result from the collaboration dispute, showing how AI labs' compute spending is straining academic norms around credit and openness.
Source: Understanding AI (Timothy B. Lee) · understandingai.org