Re:Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been...
by dwattttt on Friday October 02, 2026 @05:53AM
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... I don't think there is? I don't see what bearing that has on the original question either.
EDIT: to forestall further back and forth, I don't think there'd be any controversy if the problem statement said "common applications"
Re:Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been...
by aleph_minus_one on Friday October 02, 2026 @06:45AM
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> I don't think there'd be any controversy if the problem statement said "common applications"
I would claim "common applications" is also controversial because what is a "common application" depends insanely on the area in which you work. Even if you exclude some highly advanced scientific applications (because you don't consider these to be common), in many industrial sectors there exist applications that have grown over multiple decades, and which encode an insane amount of knowledge about the respective sector and its workflows; this is a central reason why these applications are so hard to replace.
Re:Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been...
by zahlman on Friday October 02, 2026 @05:54AM
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Now that is moving the goalposts. The entire subthread has nothing to do with whether AI can match humans in any particular endeavour. It's simply about one user's past prediction about an AI capability.
edit: I guess I misread this. I thought you were saying "well, AI isn't smart until it can solve any arbitrary problem in the whole world"