Terence Tao says AI Navier–Stokes proof is correct but mathematicians 'learned almost nothing'
sudoraohacker · x · 2026-11-10
Terence Tao says an AI-generated proof on the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem is correct — 100 pages, full of textual issues, but verified by a Lean formal certificate — reportedly produced by OpenAI's largest model with millions of dollars of compute. His critique: human proofs come with transferable insight, while this one is "strip mining" — fruit taken, landscape barren. Even a heavy AI-using colleague could explain only half after days of work, highlighting the new dilemma of correct-but-unintelligible AI research output.
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