About whether AI is on a trajectory to surpass human intelligence.
Has this happened?
Yes 1 (1%)Not sure 16 (15%)No 92 (84%)
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 whether AI is on a trajectory to surpass human intelligence.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
When the machines, all on their own, learn physics and then have the insights to reconcile QFT and GR and thereby provide us with an entire new model for the universe, then I'll agree that machine intelligence has passed human intelligence. As it is, AI is a very convincing mocking bird.