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

2019 MarchTicklishTiger

About whether the Turing award or the Turing test matters more, after deep learning pioneers win.

"Pretty sure" how?

Google trends seems to indicate the opposite.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=turing%20award,tu...

But it's not about "well known" anyhow. It's about significance. A turing test winning chat bot would be a much bigger breakthrough then an incremental improvement in image and text classification.

A chatbot wins a Turing test.

Has this happened?

Yes 90 (74%)Not sure 24 (20%)No 8 (7%)

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