Goalposts

Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2016 Novemberainot

About whether AGI will eventually take over software design work like UML modeling.

AGI sounds like fuzzy logic. We know how far that got. It will make some companies money though, it's snake oil. Computers even thousands of years from now will never be able to do what a programmer with 1 year of experience can do today, it's the advantage of being human.

An AI does what a human programmer with one year of experience can do.

Has this happened?

Yes 106 (85%)Not sure 6 (5%)No 12 (10%)

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