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

2022 Augustnradov

About how to define AGI concretely, prompted by John Carmack's new AGI company.

Then let's define the problem as passing a rigorous Turing Test. And by rigorous I mean one lasting several days conducted by a jury of 12 tenured professors drawn from multiple academic fields including philosophy, mathematics, history, computer science, neuroscience, psychology, law, etc.

An AI passes a Turing test lasting several days, judged by a jury of 12 tenured professors from multiple fields.

Has this happened?

Yes 29 (24%)Not sure 36 (30%)No 57 (47%)

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