Goalposts

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

2025 Aprilduttish

About OpenAI rolling back an overly sycophantic GPT-4o update.

I'm looking forward to when an AI can

- Tell me when I'm wrong and specifically how I'm wrong.

- Related, tell me an idea isn't possible and why.

- Tell me when it doesn't know.

So less happy fun time and more straight talking. But I doubt LLM is the architecture that'll get us there.

An AI tells you when and how you're wrong, when an idea isn't possible and why, and when it doesn't know.

Has this happened?

Yes 64 (57%)Not sure 18 (16%)No 31 (27%)

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