@VraserX: The wild part about OpenAI’s Navier–Stokes result isn’t that one AI had a brilliant idea. They threw around 10,000 agen…
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OpenAI used around 10,000 AI agents in parallel to tackle the Navier-Stokes equations, suggesting that scientific progress could scale significantly with compute power.
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The wild part about OpenAI’s Navier–Stokes result isn’t that one AI had a brilliant idea.
They threw around 10,000 agents at the problem in parallel.
Scientific progress may start scaling with compute in a way human research never could.
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