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

2024 JunePaulHoule

About a summary of the "Situational Awareness" essay predicting rapid AI progress.

... wake me up when Microsoft's CoPilot works (at all) more than 70% of the time and when it can answer questions that involve putting things in order.

Microsoft Copilot works more than 70% of the time and can answer questions that involve putting things in order.

Has this happened?

Yes 42 (40%)Not sure 39 (37%)No 25 (24%)

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