AI may have just solved a million-dollar math problem. The field will never be the same | Scientific American
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A mathematician compared the feat to the history-making chess competition in which IBM’s Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov in 1997
Today may go down as the biggest day in math in at least two decades, if not far longer. In a development that crystallizes an existential shift in humankind’s oldest intellectual discipline, artificial intelligence has reportedly solved one of the six open “million-dollar” problems in mathematics. The achievement proves that the equations that govern the motion of fluids are fundamentally flawed. “This is a Deep Blue–Kasparov moment,” wrote mathematician Tristan Buckmaster, referring to the sea change in thinking about machine intelligence that occurred when a supercomputer beat world…
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