@a16z: Greg Brockman on what solving Navier-Stokes says about the problems AI can take on next: "We actually used 10,000 agent…
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Greg Brockman discusses how OpenAI used 10,000 AI agents to solve the Navier-Stokes problem, highlighting AI's potential to drive scientific discoveries and advance towards AGI.
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Greg Brockman on what solving Navier-Stokes says about the problems AI can take on next:
“We actually used 10,000 agents to solve the Navier-Stokes problem.”
“It’s both an important problem for what it is, has significant implications and applications to fluid dynamics, to how you think about ocean currents, all these things.”
“But for what it represents, of new knowledge created by AI and it unlocking a whole wave of scientific discovery, medicines, all of those things. They’re on the table now.”
“There’s something really amazing to think about what can happen through the power of AI that is able to really help solve problems.”
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