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OpenAI confirms it cracked 90-year-old maths problem in 88 hours
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OpenAI says it has found a solution to a decades-old advanced maths problem in a matter of hours using a new artificial intelligence (AI) model and thousands of AI bots.
Key facts
- By Sept 5, or roughly 88 hours after it had set 10,000 AI bots to the task, OpenAI had found a solution to what's referred to as the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem
- Such an effort would have cost roughly $10m (£7.3m), based on OpenAI's own pricing, external for output from its most advanced models
- The ChatGPT-maker said on Tuesday, external that by focusing a group of roughly 10,000 AI agents, or AI bots that undertake tasks somewhat autonomously, it solved a notoriously difficult maths
- OpenAI admitted that last week on 1 September, it had "heard rumors that two Millennium Prize problems had been resolved" and so decided to put thousands of AI bots trained on the new internal model
Summary
The ChatGPT-maker said on Tuesday, external that by focusing a group of roughly 10,000 AI agents, or AI bots that undertake tasks somewhat autonomously, it solved a notoriously difficult maths problem in 88 hours. The problem was part of the Navier-Stokes equations, external, which concern how fluids move. OpenAI called the solution which it found a "milestone" and evidence that AI tools are improving quickly. OpenAI's solution has yet to be verified independently or publicly accepted by The Clay Mathematics Institute, a maths organization based in the US which runs the Millennium Prize that offers big money to the first to solve certain mathematical conundrums.