The mathematician taking on AI

Melbourne-born academic Tristan Buckmaster says he was maybe just one month away from solving the Navier-Stokes equation, a maths problem so difficult there was a million-dollar prize on offer for anyone who could.

But just as the New York University professor and his collaborator, a mathematician affiliated with AI company Anthropic, were closing in on a solution, OpenAI claimed a breakthrough of its own.

Today we speak to Tristan about his dispute with Open AI and the future of mathematics.

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Dr Tristan Buckmaster, Professor of Mathematics at New York University