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

2023 Novembergryfft

About whether OpenAI's economic-value definition of AGI is a fair measure of intelligence.

I'm as left leaning as HN commenters get, I think, and in terms of quacking like a duck, "surpassing humans in most economically valuable tasks" is 100% the meaningful Turing test in a capitalist society.

AI surpasses humans in most economically valuable tasks.

Has this happened?

Yes 10 (7%)Not sure 23 (16%)No 109 (77%)

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