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

2020 JuneBarrin92

About whether the OpenAI API's text models mean AGI is only a few years away.

there's zero understanding in any of this. This is still just superficial text parsing essentially. Show me progress on Winograd schema and I'd be impressed. It hasn't got anything to do with AGI, this is application of ML to very traditional NLP problems.

AI makes real progress on the Winograd schema challenge.

Has this happened?

Yes 25 (22%)Not sure 84 (75%)No 3 (3%)

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