Goalposts

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

2026 Septemberlatentsea

About whether GPT-6 Astra agents can run long projects without human vision and labor.

You want a computer program to be able to take a single phrase and execute decade long journies?

Who will be responsible for the outputs and side effects of such a closed loop system?

Itself. That's the point. We can do it. Until it can met that bar, it ain't AGI. That's always been the bar.

An AI takes a single phrase and carries out a decade-long project on its own, responsible for the outcomes itself.

Has this happened?

Yes 5 (4%)Not sure 19 (17%)No 91 (79%)

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