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jibaltoday at 11:19 AM2 repliesview on HN

> OpenAI, meanwhile, says its experience with Navier-Stokes could open the door to solving puzzles with more practical relevance. “We are now able to spend millions of dollars on a problem that we really care about and that really matters: developing new materials, finding cures to diseases,” Bubeck said. “All of those things that we have been talking about for a long time—now they seem to be at our fingertips.”

Eh? There's no connection at all between the Navier-Stokes work and those things.


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vbezhenartoday at 11:26 AM

He may be hinting that solving these complex mathematical problems will boost OpenAI clients' confidence and encourage them to spend millions of dollars on solving other complex problems.

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bananaflagtoday at 11:26 AM

Yes it is they all require intelligence.

Navier Stokes is a test of how high the intelligence is.