Company behind ChatGPT says 10,000 of its AI systems cracked the Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours
OpenAI claims to have solved a major mathematics problem that has stumped humans for nearly a century after spending millions of dollars on the artificial intelligence-led endeavour.
The company behind ChatGPT said it had cracked the Navier-Stokes problem, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems published by the Clay Mathematics Institute to highlight some of the biggest unsolved puzzles in the field.
However, the announcement swiftly became mired in controversy after mathematician Tristan Buckmaster, a professor at New York University, said OpenAI accelerated its work on the problem after hearing that he and another researcher at Anthropic, an OpenAI rival, were poised to announce their own breakthrough.
Buckmaster had further concerns because the pair’s work in progress was stored in OpenAI’s Codex model, which is used for writing computer programs, potentially making the work visible to the OpenAI team.
