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

2023 Februaryhot_gril

About whether AI can be funny, after an AI Seinfeld show was banned for its jokes.

Humor (both making and understanding jokes) is gonna be the final obstacle to AI passing the Turing Test. If it ever nails that down, it'll only be after imitating humans in every other way.

An AI makes and understands jokes as well as a human does.

Has this happened?

Yes 31 (26%)Not sure 21 (18%)No 67 (56%)

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