Good article from Zeynep Tufekci in the NYT on OpenAI and the Navier-Stokes fluid dynamics math problem.

Couple of things about this:

  1. The proof still needs to be verified.
  2. This bit from Sebastien Bubeck from OpenAI stands out:

Regarding the level of human involvement on our end: although a group of people was involved in our efforts, we collectively had no research-level expertise in fluid dynamics and the Navier-Stokes problem, and therefore were unable to meaningfully contribute to the mathematical content.

I’m not sure this is the flex he seems to think it is.