OpenAI's announcement that it used an artificial-intelligence model to solve a major puzzle in fluid dynamics ' the Navier'Stokes problem ' is likely to change how mathematics is done forever. The claim, made by the AI company in San Francisco, California, on 8 September, has also sparked controversy about whether OpenAI tools have learnt information from human mathematicians who were also racing to solve the problem using AI tools. The widespread use of AI models across most fields of research, and the difficulty of tracing the origin of the information used to train models, could put the very notion of scholarly credit into jeopardy, researchers warn. 'It is quite possible that academic researchers have not fully grasped the consequences of uploading data and knowledge to a personal AI model account,' says Luke McDonagh, who studies intellectual-property law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In an open letter decrying AI companies' entry into solving...
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