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

2024 Junekaba0

About whether children are smarter than the AI meant to protect them from online grooming.

Any measure? ChatGPT still can’t solve a sudoku, let alone do any form of reasoning. It’s more of a search engine than “intelligence”, while humans obviously can reason and solve novel tasks.

ChatGPT solves a sudoku puzzle.

Has this happened?

Yes 76 (64%)Not sure 35 (29%)No 8 (7%)

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