No human has read OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof, says critic — formal verification alone isn't proof
gerardsans · x · 2026-10-09
Responding to the claim that ChatGPT is improving by leaps and bounds at mathematical proofs, Hernán López notes that no human has yet claimed to have read and understood OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof, and that Lean now appears to have formalized something else. His verdict: "I don't consider it proven" — underlining that formal verification doesn't equal human-comprehensible proof.
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