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

2021 Juneusername90

About AI code generation with the GPT-J-6B language model.

I think the "turing test" for code generation would be to be able to do most leetcode problems and other competitive programming problems. If you can do that you have done something amazing, and the dataset and testing for it already exists.

An AI code generator solves most LeetCode and other competitive programming problems.

Has this happened?

Yes 118 (90%)Not sure 11 (8%)No 2 (2%)

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