About whether 'AI' is a moving target as chatbots keep improving.
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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About whether 'AI' is a moving target as chatbots keep improving.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
The film 2001 came out over 50 years ago, and I think HAL is a pretty common reference point for a "what is 'real AI'?" target. Until we have HAL and people are saying that it's not AI, I don't think the target is moving. ;) At least as far as "chatbots" go.
Alternately, you've got the also-very-old Turing Test as your chatbot target.