Goalposts

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

2020 Septemberisoprophlex

About a claim of Latin in the Voynich manuscript and whether GPT-3 could translate it.

Are there transcriptions available of voynich script into ascii?

Someone with access to GPT3 should try having it translate some bits into English. Would be the most shocking 'look what GPT can do' moment, to me!

An AI translates parts of the Voynich manuscript into English.

Has this happened?

Yes 28 (25%)Not sure 52 (46%)No 32 (29%)

Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.