OpenAI's brute force solves Navier-Stokes puzzle, threatening math's art form

openai used thousands of agents to solve the navier-stokes existence and smoothness problem, a puzzle that has intrigued mathematicians for decades. mathematicians like juspreet singh sandhu and jared speck argue that this brute force approach threatens to undermine human understanding and creativity in mathematics. the problem is related to the navier-stokes equations, which describe fluid flow, but its solution does not have practical applications. mathematicians value the artistic process of developing ideas, which ai's approach shortcuts. this has implications for the future of mathematics and its relationship with ai.