About what would count as AGI, such as learning to drive like a human.
Has this happened?
Yes 72 (51%)Not sure 23 (16%)No 46 (33%)
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 what would count as AGI, such as learning to drive like a human.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
But you can't even train current any current AGI candidates to drive as well as a human...
In fact arguably that's the biggest thing missing from current AI models - you can't readily/reliably teach them new skills just by demonstration and explanation, only by uploading new massive training datasets (for which there's no straightforward way of knowing whether they contain enough data for the skills/knowledge to be absorbed).