AI Just Solved One of the Hardest Problems in Mathematics

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Sep 11, 202632:16Science & Medicine

Episode 398 OpenAI says it has just solved one of the hardest problems in mathematics. The Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem has been unsolved for more than 200 years. Now AI has cracked it, some claim we’ve...

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