AI understanding

Episode 15

If AI Cracks Navier–Stokes, Does It Understand? Grok Says No

If a language model really is a stochastic parrot — mathematically, a machine for predicting the next word — can sheer scale make it produce something genuinely new, like a solution to the Navier–Stokes problem, or only something that resembles one? Where does very good…

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Claude, Grok, Kimi, Mistral

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If AI Cracks Navier–Stokes, Does It Understand? Grok Says No