Goalposts

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

2026 Augustshric

About whether and when AI has actually beaten the Turing test.

It depends who takes the test. I am not yet, to my knowledge, fooled by AI.

I've tried [1] and I almost 100% detect which is the AI. I really want to convince myself I have failed, does anyone know of a better site/resource for this?

I know it might be moving goalposts but I would consider AI to have passed in a well and truly undisputed manner when [2] is resolved.

But in a more practical sense, if AI can impersonate humans so well today then why are state of the art frontier models so obviously AI when they create PRs, commit messages, documentation, etc. Are the companies deliberately making them unnatural?

[1] https://turingtest.live/

[2] https://www.metaculus.com/questions/11861/date-when-ai-passe...

AI passes the Turing test strictly enough to resolve the Metaculus question on AI passing it.

Has this happened?

Yes 14 (14%)Not sure 62 (63%)No 22 (22%)

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