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

2025 Julyhyperbovine

About whether LLMs that largely solved NLP count as trivial or as real AI.

It still doesn't pass the Turing test, and is not close. Five years ago me would be impressed but still adamant that this is not AI, nor is it on the path to AI.

An AI passes the Turing test.

Has this happened?

Yes 71 (59%)Not sure 29 (24%)No 20 (17%)

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