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

2024 Marchpants2

About whether any AI can pass as human on a live video call.

There's no tech today that can pass a zoom call turing test, not even close when you account for the live aspect. There are plenty of things on a zoom call that LLMs currently can't do like "Hey can you whistle your favorite tune?"

An AI passes a live Zoom-call Turing test, including requests like "whistle your favorite tune."

Has this happened?

Yes 24 (18%)Not sure 43 (32%)No 67 (50%)

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