Navier-Stokes AI claim sparks math world backlash: 'ad hoc forcing, not a solution'

basedjensen · x · 2026-09-09

A viral claim that AI agents essentially cracked Navier-Stokes has triggered fierce pushback. Critic @BetterCallMedhi argues the feat was just 10,000 agents running 88 hours on a multimillion-dollar GPU cluster to formalize in Lean a blowup case under a controlled external forcing term — while the Clay Millennium Prize asks about global smooth existence and stability of 3D incompressible Euler/Navier-Stokes under natural conservation laws alone. @theo quipped the science world is having its 'AI can't ACTUALLY code' crash-out moment.

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