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

2025 Junewaldrews

About Google's cheap AI search summaries versus its stronger Gemini models.

The model that's doing AI Summary for search results - that presumably needs to be fast and cheap because of the scale - is still sufficiently bad as to give people a bad taste. Presumably they're frantically working to scale their better models for this use case. If you could get Gemini Pro on every search result the experience would be effectively perfect (in the sense of better error rates than what a non-specialist educated human reading the top results and summarizing them would achieve). That's years away from a scaling/cost/speed perspective.

AI search summaries on every result make fewer errors than an educated non-specialist summarizing the top results.

Has this happened?

Yes 33 (29%)Not sure 35 (31%)No 46 (40%)

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