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

2022 Novemberdinkblam

About whether language models like GPT-3 are nearly AGI and critics keep shifting the bar.

The author claims we do "keep shifting the bar", but that simply isn't true. The same criteria for A(G)I still applies for 70 years now. The Turing Test has not been passed by GPT-3 or any other system yet.

An AI passes the Turing test, meeting the long-standing criterion for artificial general intelligence.

Has this happened?

Yes 93 (70%)Not sure 23 (17%)No 16 (12%)

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