Model solving Navier-Stokes burned tokens equal to 4,000 years of human thinking
Dr_Singularity · x · 2026-09-20
A thread argues the case for AI optimism: human abstract, structured reasoning is evolutionarily new and sits far below any theoretical computational ceiling. As an example, the OpenAI model that solved Navier-Stokes used tokens equivalent to a human thinking for 4,000 years at a typical work week. From this scale of headroom, the author infers that organized logical reasoning capacity could surge sometime in the early 2030s.
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