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Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met

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  1. lelanthran · · focus · HN ↗
    I am more interested in the 18 people who replied "yes" to "An AI wrote an entire coherent book".

    Maybe they mean a non-fiction "Learn Javascript in 21 Days" type of book? If not, I really want to read a novel-length (or even novelletee - 80k words or so) book written by an AI to see for myself if the results are comparable to non-self-published authors.

    1. DrewADesign · · focus · HN ↗
      Things like this are a Rorschach test for anybody with a significant ideological bent.

      Challenge: “A stopped clock can’t be reliably used to tell the time.”

      Group A: “A stopped clock is incapable of displaying the correct time and anybody that says they’ve seen one do so is a stupid lying liar! I saw a pre-release paper that proved it!”

      Group B: “I looked at my stopped clock 5 times yesterday, 12 hours apart confirmed with the atomic clock, and it was within 2 seconds of the correct time every time except once. The people that can’t use stopped clocks to view the correct time are dumb dumbs that are looking at them wrong.”

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