The Navier-Stokes Week AI

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    By late morning this was the highest-engagement account of the day at 5,300 likes and 263,000 views, and it is the version most people will have read. Every line of it is in the statement. What is not in the statement is the conclusion a reader draws from the last two: Buckmaster asked about training and got no answer, and he is explicit that he does not know what the answer is.

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    >math professor spends a year on one of the hardest unsolved problems in math
    >"Navier-Stokes"
    >his drafts for the whole project went through codex sessions
    >openai had his logs in codex
    >suddenly rumor leaks AI solved it
    >he emails openai to ask what's going on
    >openai calls within days
    >"funny story, our model also solved it"
    >using his exact approach
    >asks openai: did you train on my sessions?
    >no answer

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