Goalposts

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

2019 NovemberSchool-Cotton

About whether riding a bike is harder for a robot than driving a car.

My personal anecdotal belief is that it’s much, much harder for a robot to ride a bike than to drive a car. It requires human-level bodily/physical intuition that AI is nowhere near. We can barely program robots to walk normally, let alone ride a bike.

An AI-controlled robot rides a bike, a task needing human-level bodily and physical intuition.

Has this happened?

Yes 11 (9%)Not sure 37 (32%)No 68 (59%)

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