"You are living through the Singularity": Navier-Stokes solve likened to stealing fire
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-09-09
A widely-shared take hails OpenAI's use of an 'internal model' to solve the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem as equivalent to Prometheus stealing fire, splitting the atom, achieving flight and landing on the moon — combined. The author argues the average person doesn't appreciate the power of knowledge, declaring "knowledge genuinely is power."
Hyperbolic in tone, but representative of the awe (and singularity discourse) rippling through the AI community after the announcement.
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