About Claude failing to create an unsolvable sliding puzzle.
Has this happened?
Yes 43 (38%)Not sure 38 (33%)No 33 (29%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About Claude failing to create an unsolvable sliding puzzle.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
If "Claude" was truly "intelligent", shouldn't it have either; A) tried this on it's own; or B) admit it had no clue how to proceed.
Expecting intelligence to somehow "emerge" from a statistical process is absurd. Yet $ billions are being funneled down this rabbit hole by tech "leaders" who should know better.