About an AI result on the Navier–Stokes Millennium Problem after humans had already solved it.
Has this happened?
Yes 55 (42%)Not sure 30 (23%)No 45 (35%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About an AI result on the Navier–Stokes Millennium Problem after humans had already solved it.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
There are bound to be a bunch more results like this, in math, physics, chemistry, and now that we essentially have a DeepBlue for math, a DeepBlue for physics, etc, these results are going to come.
SOME of the problems that have eluded humans are going to turn out to be low hanging fruit that are susceptible to this type of brute force (10,000 agents on a supercomputer running for 7*24 hours straight) AI search.
I'd be more impressed if OpenAI found their own problems to solve, rather than rushing in to re-solve one once they heard it was already solved (and therefore not so hard).