Histed: even if the Navier-Stokes step borrowed human results, AI math progress is real
HistedLab · x · 2026-09-11
Neuroscientist Josh Histed weighs in: AI and LLMs are extremely impressive and revolutionary for coding. Even if the recent Navier-Stokes step turns out to be trained on Buckmaster's human results, he argues AI has still made genuine progress on math.
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