Brand New AI Solves a Millennium Prize

The first Millennium Prize, Navier-Stokes, has fallen to AI. A deeply unfortunate situation has arisen involving what should have been some combination of a positive story about new progress in AI-assisted mathematical research and yet another opportunity to freak out about rapid AI progress. Or, as we call it around here, Tuesday. The Real Story Is The New Model That Is Better Than Astra Keep your eyes on the prize. There are three stories here. The first story is much more important than the second story, which in turn is much more important than the third story. OpenAI’s next model took a week to get a generation ahead of Astra, and they are telling us this because everyone is totally freaked out about what is happening. Or, in official language: ‘We believe it is important to inform the world about the pace of AI progress and what to expect from upcoming models’ and that we ‘may require more deliberate choices about the pace of progress.’ This new AI has, eight days after it…