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

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hatthew · 1790903353 · focus · HN ↗
My comment about humanity's last exam being a misnomer is included, and I proposed better ideas about what a last exam could look like. One of the things I said was "solve an open math problem" which has conclusively been done with Navier-Stokes (regardless of the controversy surrounding that). However, in the spirit of clarifying the goalposts, AI has only passed 1/6 of the tests I proposed. 17% is not a passing grade, so I'd say no, my challenge has not been met.
Another thing to note is that the (presumably AI-generated) summary of my challenge does not accurately represent what I wrote, listing only half the things I said and saying "or" rather than "and".
1. ralfd · 1790946456 · focus · HN ↗
  > I expected it to be more like "write a 500 page novel that a publisher accepts",
  It only has 272 pages, but there is a big scandal right now about France's most prestigous literary award remobing a critically aclaimed(!) bestseller(!!) novel because it likely was "almost entirely written by AI"
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/25/thelyson-orelien-goncourt-prize-france" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/25/thelyson-oreli...
  1. someonebaggy · 1791040775 · focus · HN ↗
    Note that "bestseller" doesn't mean anything and hasn't for a long time as it's been manipulated to all hell with stuff like wash sales. Neither does "critically acclaimed" which never did.

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