About which AI and robotics tasks are truly hard, beyond text processing.
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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About which AI and robotics tasks are truly hard, beyond text processing.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Yeah a bit like I’ll be impressed by a humanoid robot that can fold a shirt from a freeform state (i.e. thrown as a ball on the laundry chair, or straight out of the dryer). Just like repeatable movements an balance are the easy(er) parts of robotics, text processing is the easy part of AI.