Goalposts

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

2024 Maycodexon

About whether LLMs that score well on reasoning benchmarks actually understand logic.

GPT4o still can't reason. It is super fancy autocomplete.

https://i.imgur.com/z83umbk.jpeg

Here I change a widely known riddle to the opposite answer, and I manage to make it state them both as the answer.

An AI correctly answers a well-known riddle altered to have the opposite answer, without also giving the original answer.

Has this happened?

Yes 60 (49%)Not sure 43 (35%)No 19 (16%)

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