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

2020 Octoberusername90

About what intelligence tests would be equally valid for humans, animals and machines.

The real Turing test is "Get a job as a remote developer and keep it for a year while getting paid". An AI that can reliably do that is what I'd consider general intelligence. If it can't learn how to interact with all the API's and programs you need to complete your tasks such as email, chat, code etc then it is not a general intelligence.

An AI reliably gets a job as a remote developer and keeps it for a year while getting paid.

Has this happened?

Yes 16 (13%)Not sure 35 (28%)No 75 (60%)

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