1038: AI’s Contentious Math Breakthroughs

Today's episode covers the remarkable and remarkably contentious run of mathematical results that AI systems have produced over the past few weeks. The headline is OpenAI's claim to have resolved one of the Clay mathematics institute's millennium prize problems i'm going to cover what was claimed and why it's exciting i'm also going to cover why many of the world's top mathematicians are alarmed some background first

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1. 01Today's episode covers the remarkable and remarkably contentious run of mathematical results that AI systems have produced over the past few weeks
2. 02Last month, OpenAI announced that about 10,000 autonomous AI agents running on an unreleased internal model had found a singularity in the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations
3. 03So OpenAI says its agents found such a blow up, such a singularity, a swirling vortex whose velocity grows without bound