About the AI effect, where solved problems stop counting as real intelligence.
Has this happened?
Yes 106 (83%)Not sure 8 (6%)No 13 (10%)
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 the AI effect, where solved problems stop counting as real intelligence.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
But as soon as we are able to solve a problem that we think (feel?) only true AI (AGI) would be able to solve, as soon as we know how it was solved, it is no longer a mystery that warrants amazement and we argue that it is not real intelligence, just like the link below states.
I think the issue is that current examples of AI can mostly only solve problems in a single domain instead of in a variety of domains. Developing a program that can generate solutions for a single specific niche of problems (while impressive) is not a convincing demonstration of intelligence. For example, while AlphaGo is incredibly impressive, it can only play Go and nothing else.
I think once we have a comprehensive AI program that can play many kinds of games, can have conversations, can complete school exam questions, can write stories etc. the question of what intelligence is will become more interesting.