Goalposts

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

2017 Augustflunhat

About whether critics keep moving AI goalposts after OpenAI's Dota 2 bot.

The Turing test is hardly a new measure - it's been around for ~70 years and hasn't been passed yet. But otherwise I agree with what you said - this is just my personal measure of when we'll be in society-shaking territory.

An AI passes the Turing test.

Has this happened?

Yes 97 (73%)Not sure 20 (15%)No 16 (12%)

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