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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. Featured: Dr Tristan Buckmaster, Professor of Mathematics at New York University
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ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music and more. Hello, listeners. This is Planet America's John Barron. And this is Planet America's Chaz Luchidello.
And both of us are here to have a fireside chat. Yes, that's right. Planet America's fireside chat is back. We're talking a lot about the midterm elections, which are coming up in early
November, Chaz. These are crucial for President Trump, although he is not on the ballot and this won't stop him being president, but the stakes are still pretty high. They certainly are.
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