About whether AI is less impressive than claimed, after an AI beat a professional Go player.
Has this happened?
Yes 106 (86%)Not sure 11 (9%)No 6 (5%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About whether AI is less impressive than claimed, after an AI beat a professional Go player.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
To me impressive would be if an AI could be told a story, such as The 3 little pigs and then be able to reason about it speculatively, e.g. answering questions such as "Why do you think this character did this and that?". This would should that the machine has developed an intelligence. So far, all AI can do is pattern recognition, which can be very useful for many tasks, but in my opinion it shouldn't be called "intelligence" because it isn't. Far from it.