Terence Tao's post, curated on eChai

Asked about the rumour, Tao says he has not heard anything, then says the thing he had been saying all week in one sentence.

Terence Tao, in mathstodon.xyz

A clarification in response to recent rumors about a possible solution to the Navier-Stokes problem: I am not aware of any significant developments in this regard; the above discussion is hypothetical, but not completely implausible at the current level of development of AI technology.

The point remains that there is a substantial opportunity cost in converting a historically productive and motivating problem (such as Navier-Stokes regularity) into a mere viral social media post advertising some benchmark progress.

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