About the AI effect and what people would actually count as AI.
Has this happened?
Yes 33 (31%)Not sure 26 (24%)No 49 (45%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About the AI effect and what people would actually count as AI.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Fair, though in my case (which is insignificant and out of the norm) I've always wanted AI robots, as a kid I loved watching Dexter's Lab and seeing him make robots to do things. I'm also okay with a really powerful AI assistant beyond what we have today. I tried using AI assistants a few times, but I always end up shutting them off for either privacy concerns or just get tired of figuring out the word soup to make them work. I really want to see an AI assistant that is insanely capable and fully offline first, so maybe something like Mycroft, not sure how fully capable it is without reaching out to the internet though, but I assume it has some capabilities without being online.
In my eyes, AI is something that could pass the Turing test without fail, ever because it knows how to communicate how we do, and think like we do.