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> The navier-stokes shows us what mathematical problem can be solved when $10m worth of compute is thrown at something. That's the thing, it very much does NOT
by andrepd 19d ago
> The navier-stokes shows us what mathematical problem can be solved when $10m worth of compute is thrown at something.
That's the thing, it very much does NOT show us that. What happened was mathematicians at openAI learned of an imminent development on this problem, and the insight that it entailed, then they were able to prompt a system in the correct direction and spend 20 million dollars to write down the final steps.
Which is rather precisely the point that the article is making!
> If you knew AI could be affordable enough in 3-5 years so that even the most underfunded researchers could use it to solve cancer
As the saying goes, if my grandmother had wheels she would have been a truck.
- famouswaffles 19d ago>What happened was mathematicians at openAI learned of an imminent development on this problem, and the insight that it entailed, then they were able to prompt a system in the correct direction and spend 20 million dollars to write down the final steps. That's not what happened.
- andrepd 18d agoActually it was. But thanks for elaborating.
- famouswaffles 18d agoNo it wasn't. They didn't know 'what direction' to take, and the solution they posted was not in fact the direction the authors took, so evidently you don't know what you're talking about. And they say LLMs hallucinate.