Giulio Prisco on the AI Navier-Stokes solution: science will be a human-AI joint endeavor
Chris_Armstrong · x · 2026-09-14
Giulio Prisco shared his summary with commentary of OpenAI's AI solution to the Navier-Stokes problem and the ensuing drama in the math community.
- Quoting Mindplex's take: the remaining Millennium Prize Problems, and large stretches of physics and other formal sciences, will likely fall the same way.
- His core argument: when the dust settles, mathematics — and then all science — will be seen as a joint endeavor of humans and our AI 'mind children.'
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