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

2025 AprilSubiculumCode

About whether o3 and Gemini 2.5 count as a "jagged" form of AGI.

We will have AGI when we have an embodied AI that can do the job of a plumber. It sounds silly, but plumbers need to work in very varied environments, solve physical problems in those environments, while conforming to code, essentially being able to solve problems across mental and physical domains...putting the general into general.

An embodied AI does the job of a plumber in varied real-world settings while meeting building code.

Has this happened?

Yes 2 (1%)Not sure 7 (5%)No 125 (93%)

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