Mathematicians flag mismatch between OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof and its Lean version
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A team of mathematicians says OpenAI's natural-language proof of Navier-Stokes does not match its Lean formalization. Lemma 8.6 asks for a value below m + 4 in prose but below m + 5 in Lean, a weaker condition. The team used ChatGPT to help search and verified by hand, taking about two weeks to find the gap. A mismatch does not make either version invalid; the disclosed problem is inconsistent conditions when the prose proof was turned into Lean code.
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- Hacker News front pageOpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navier-Stokes proof
数学家团队指出，OpenAI 的 Navier-Stokes 自然语言证明与 Lean 形式化版本存在差异，但这不代表任一版本无效。Lemma 8.6 中，自然语言版本要求某个值小于 m + 4，Lean 版本却要求小于 m + 5，条件更弱；团队借助 ChatGPT 排查并人工核验，约用两周找到这一差异。
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