OpenAI's Millennium Prize proof sparks debate: can AI only solve what humans already published?
SumitGup · x · 2026-09-09
After OpenAI announced a proof of the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem produced by agents, X users clashed over what it means. @neilturkewitz quipped that "AI can solve any problem, so long as a human published the solution first," questioning the originality of the result, while the quoter @DrGingerballs went further, calling the approach IP theft: human knowledge laundered through models and resold without attribution. The exchange captures the central controversy over whether AI math proofs are genuine breakthroughs.
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