Gary Marcus Amplifies Claim OpenAI Exploited a Loophole in Millennium Challenge Rules
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-23
Gary Marcus boosts a critique that OpenAI exploited a loophole in the Millennium Challenge description — adding an unrealistic forcing function that could never be replicated physically. Since the rules allowed it, the challenge was technically solved, but the central question of the Navier–Stokes problem was not. The episode feeds ongoing debate over how frontier labs frame "major breakthroughs."
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