The Millennium Problems are a set of the most important open problems in mathematics. so far only 2 have been solved: the Poincare Conjecture by Grigori Perelman in 2010 and today OpenAI released this https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/

The only problem is, that their AI didn't even come up with the solution itself. Mathematicians working on the same problem recently made big strides in solving the Navier Stokes equations, and their chat logs were scraped and used in training data before they could release the proof themselves.

Here is the unpaywalled statements of the Mathematician: https://mastodon.social/@tristanbuckmaster/117233413705701198

Western AI companies have been tackling a bunch of open problems and techbro chuds cannot shut up about it, this is just Marketing and the fact they have to steal real people's work to do so just proves it. They really want that IPO moneyyy capitalist-laugh

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[–] 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Froma cursory glance I get the impression that the math community really likes AI.

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  • [–] 4 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

    The first proof of the four-colour theorem was a computer-generated one in 1976, and was controversial at the time as being hundreds of pages of impenetrable slop that was exceedingly hard to check by hand. Fifty years of progress, eh?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    That's interesting information that I didn't know. I'm sorry but I don't know what your point is.

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  • [–] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    Just regarding "math community really likes AI", that they've had a complicated relationship with computer-generated proofs for a long while. Not a new thing.

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago

    My opinion is that this time is a little different. AI industry is so massive capital-wise it's hard to talk about AI as just a tool and not wonder about its broader ramifications. But mathematicians like Terence Tao have been providing free PR for AI even after they all fucked over the International Math Olympiad. Separately, the Lean community really likes AI. They use it heavily in Lean itself and in deriving proofs using it.

    You can say that they are just showing a neutral and scientific temperament which I think is fair. But I wonder how much more they are going to be fucked over by it. Maybe this trend of brute forcing proofs as a PR strategy will die out and things will be less bad for them.

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