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

2023 Novembercivilized

About what separates humans from LLMs in Hinton's "glorified autocomplete" debate.

It is very easy to separate humans from LLMs. Humans created math without being given all the answers beforehand. LLMs can't do that yet.

When an LLM can create math to solve a problem, we will be much closer to AGI.

An LLM creates new math to solve a problem without being given the answers beforehand.

Has this happened?

Yes 55 (46%)Not sure 35 (29%)No 30 (25%)

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