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

2022 Octobernuker

About whether self-driving cars need reasoning that ML systems lack.

Nope, not one. And not on any car for sure. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_reasoning

From actual AI wiki article: “highly mathematical-statistical machine learning has dominated the field”. This will never be able to drive as good as humans.

A machine-learning system drives a car as well as human drivers do.

Has this happened?

Yes 40 (36%)Not sure 27 (24%)No 44 (40%)

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