Goalposts

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

2019 Julysixplusone

About Waymo's CEO saying fully autonomous level five cars will basically never exist.

Agreed. Navigating the world is basically an AI-complete problem; we don't let 12-year-old kids drive and these current enhanced cruise control systems are nowhere near the AGI of that.

An AI drives a car in any condition on any road without ever needing a human to take control.

Has this happened?

Yes 18 (16%)Not sure 22 (19%)No 76 (66%)

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