{"id":3927703,"date":"2026-08-27T16:03:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/fast-but-error-prone-ai-assists-in-solving-a-decades-old-fluid-mechanics-problem-in-five-weeks\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:03:37","slug":"fast-but-error-prone-ai-assists-in-solving-a-decades-old-fluid-mechanics-problem-in-five-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/fast-but-error-prone-ai-assists-in-solving-a-decades-old-fluid-mechanics-problem-in-five-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast but error-prone AI assists in solving a decades-old fluid mechanics problem in five weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An AI assistant helped University of Colorado Boulder researchers solve a mathematical problem that had challenged their lab for a year and a half, though it made subtle errors along the way. The breakthrough could improve how scientists study nanoparticles\u2014tiny particles about 1,000 times thinner than a human hair\u2014but it reveals both the promise and limitations of AI as a scientific research partner.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-fast-error-prone-ai-decades.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An AI assistant helped University of Colorado Boulder researchers solve a mathematical problem that had challenged their lab for a year and a half, though it made subtle errors along the way. The breakthrough could improve how scientists study nanoparticles\u2014tiny particles about 1,000 times thinner than a human hair\u2014but it reveals both the promise and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}