About whether CAPTCHAs, as reverse Turing tests, show strong AI hasn't arrived yet.
Has this happened?
Yes 73 (54%)Not sure 38 (28%)No 24 (18%)
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 CAPTCHAs, as reverse Turing tests, show strong AI hasn't arrived yet.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
The T in CAPTCHA stands for Turing Test.
The moment we can't make them efficiently distinguish bots from humans would be the moment the test is passed.