About whether GPT-2 successors will soon write essays good enough for students to cheat.
Has this happened?
Yes 98 (80%)Not sure 8 (7%)No 17 (14%)
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 GPT-2 successors will soon write essays good enough for students to cheat.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I'd say generating an entire coherent essay like this would constitute a solid pass of the Turing test. I don't think we're that close to that yet (or alternately the singularity is right around the corner, because you could feed that same bot a corpus of AI papers and have it write new publishable ones.)