Comment by square_usual
1 day ago
> and learned of the general approach they were taking. Only after learning the secret to cracking the problem did they send the first prompt.
Do you have any evidence of this? They don't dispute the timeline, but they never said they knew what Levant/Buckmaster were doing.
It's in OpenAI's first announcement that they had solved the problem.
> Only after learning the secret to cracking the problem did they send the first prompt.
Which quote in the announcement post provides evidence for the above quote?
“ On Tuesday, September 1, we heard rumors that two Millennium Prize problems had been resolved. Inspired by these rumors and by the step change in performance of our internal model, we launched an effort to evaluate it on all open Millennium Prize problems and a few other high-impact problems.”
- https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/
They do not explicitly admit to knowing about NS specifically, but are extremely explicit that they tried to scoop some potential millennium prize winners.
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