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

2026 Marchquantified

About an essay's claim that AI already exceeds humans in most cognitive domains.

We are past the point where the question is whether artificial intelligence will exceed human capability across most cognitive domains. It already has.

To be convincing, as a top-of-your-class Stanford alumn, you only need to bullshit people. In the real world, you should come with definitions and measures of cognitive capability and domains. AI can't even drive a car safely outside of very limited scopes, and can't do it as adaptably as a human within those scopes.

An AI drives a car safely outside very limited scopes, and as adaptably as a human within them.

Has this happened?

Yes 33 (25%)Not sure 27 (20%)No 72 (55%)

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