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On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

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Re: On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

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post #18

> Our goal in releasing this result is to report on the substantial progress of our AI models. We do not intend to claim the Millennium Prize for this result. Does OpenAI have a policy of not claiming math prizes like this, or is this them trying to avoid any concerns (right or wrong, I'm sure we will hear more in the future) about how they got there?

The prize is what, a million dollars?

OpenAI doesn't need a million dollars.

Re: On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

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Elsewhere in the thread, others have calculated $15mm at API rates for just the output token. (So I’ll assume this cost about that much, taking input and human researcher time.)

I wonder whether a team of 60 mathematicians working solely on this for a year would have cracked this. (Assuming $250k total compensation.)

Re: On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

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Does seem like they gloss over Alpöge and Buckmaster's work with the following > While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models . Which seems a bit irresponsible/rash?

They'll probably claim a rogue AI agent accessed it accidentally!

Re: On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

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post #18

> Our goal in releasing this result is to report on the substantial progress of our AI models. We do not intend to claim the Millennium Prize for this result. Does OpenAI have a policy of not claiming math prizes like this, or is this them trying to avoid any concerns (right or wrong, I'm sure we will hear more in the future) about how they got there?

>Does OpenAI have a policy of not claiming math prizes like this

Wouldn't be surprising if they did. The prize money isn't worth the almost certainly negative PR.

Re: On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

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I don't know about you guys, but I'm hyped about the future. Cure all illnesses Utopia or Robot Wars Dystopia, both are pretty exciting.

Prompt: cure all cancers and make sure to pretty please not to kill all humans, make no mistakes

(This is the alignment problem of course)

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