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

2026 Marchroot_axis

About whether today's LLMs already look like AGI, on a story about Arm's "AGI CPU".

If we had AGI we wouldn't need to keep spending more and more money to train these models, they could just solve arbitrary problems through logic and deduction like any human. Instead, the only way to make them good at something is to encode millions of examples into text or find some other technique to tune them automatically (e.g. verifiable reward modeling of with computer systems).

Why is it that LLMs could ace nearly every written test known to man, but need specialized training in order to do things like reliably type commands into a terminal or competently navigate a computer? A truly intelligent system should be able to 0-shot those types of tasks, or in the absolute worst case 1-shot them.

An AI without specialized training competently uses a terminal or navigates a computer on its first or second try.

Has this happened?

Yes 50 (46%)Not sure 35 (32%)No 23 (21%)

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