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

2024 Aprilbreadwinner

About Musk predicting AI will be smarter than the smartest human by next year.

Almost all of the top models are smarter than 99% of the people

Not true. Most humans can learn driving in under a week. How many AI models today can learn driving in under a week, just like a human? None. Until it can, AIs are not smarter than humans.

An AI model learns to drive in under a week, as most humans can.

Has this happened?

Yes 11 (9%)Not sure 27 (22%)No 82 (68%)

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