Tao blog essay on LLMs lands amid OpenAI Navier-Stokes announcement and misconduct claims
gleech · x · 2026-10-10
Terence Tao's blog hosts a guest essay by Nestor Guillen on what it would mean if LLMs resolved Navier-Stokes blow-up. He notes the same-week news: Buckmaster and Alpöge announced a finite-time blow-up for 3D incompressible Euler with forcing plus misconduct allegations against OpenAI; the next day OpenAI announced a 3D Navier-Stokes blow-up result from its internal LLM. Guillen sees credit given to Córdoba and Martínez-Zoroa as validating his view of LLMs as cultural technologies.
Related event: Tao's Blog and LessWrong Debate LLMs Moving from Memorization to Discovery(2 posts)→
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