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

2023 Marchnine_k

About an AI posing as a human online, after GPT-4 hired a TaskRabbit worker.

Tangentially, I wait for a day when an AI will ask a similar question on a forum like this, unnoticed, and receive a bunch of helpful answers (mostly) from humans. That would be a more real version of the Turing test.

An AI asks a question on a forum like Hacker News without being noticed and gets helpful answers from humans.

Has this happened?

Yes 70 (58%)Not sure 31 (26%)No 19 (16%)

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