Goalposts

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

2018 Mayapk17

About whether passing the Turing test in our lifetime is exciting, after Google Duplex.

I'm not. When that happens it means many of us (basically everybody between a keyboard and a chair) are out of a job.

'Dear turing test candidate, how would a program to do this and that look like.'

Or 'business strategy'.

An AI passes the Turing test well enough to answer programming and business strategy questions.

Has this happened?

Yes 78 (63%)Not sure 18 (15%)No 27 (22%)

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