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

2024 MarchIncreasePosts

About whether AI getting top scores on AP tests makes it AGI.

Fairly boring - "The answer is known and I want to see if you know the answer" is good for judging students abilities, but no real world problem exists like that. I will be much more hopeful for AGI when AI starts producing new and interesting knowledge, rather than regurgitating already known facts.

AI produces new and interesting knowledge, rather than repeating facts that are already known.

Has this happened?

Yes 61 (55%)Not sure 17 (15%)No 33 (30%)

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