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

2026 Februarycv5005

About Google's Game Arena for benchmarking AI models by playing games.

My personal threshold for AGI is when an AI can 'sit down' - it doesn't need to have robotic hands, but it needs to only use visual and audio inputs to make its moves - and complete a modern RPG or FPS single player game that it hasn't pre-trained on (it can train on older games).

Using only video and audio input, an AI completes a modern single-player RPG or FPS it wasn't trained on.

Has this happened?

Yes 31 (28%)Not sure 36 (32%)No 44 (40%)

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