About whether a high score on the ARC benchmark would mean AI has reached AGI.
Has this happened?
Yes 8 (7%)Not sure 15 (14%)No 88 (79%)
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 whether a high score on the ARC benchmark would mean AI has reached AGI.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I agree with you but I'll go a step further - these benchmarks are a good example of how far we are from AGI.
A good base test would be to give a manager a mixed team of remote workers, half being human and half being AI, and seeing if the manager or any of the coworkers would be able to tell the difference. We wouldn't be able to say that AI that passed that test would necessarily be AGI, since we would have to test it in other situations. But we could say that AI that couldn't pass that test wouldn't qualify, since it wouldn't be able to successfully accomplish some tasks that humans are able to.
But of course, current AI is nowhere near that level yet. We're left with benchmarks, because we all know how far away we are from actual AGI.