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Recognize sarcasm as well as a typical human

Have human conversations that feel natural (the human knows it's an AI)

Book airline tickets from simple instructions (from/to, dates/time, class, price, payment information)

Beat a mainline Pokémon game, glitchless, with no more assistance than ClaudePlaysPokemon, in a month of compute time

Independently turning 1 thousand $ or more into 1.2x that amount in one year

Predict future better than human experts in some area of forecasting (eg politics, sports, technology)

Do end to end taxes when given relevant information (W2s, personal info, etc)

Name every [metro system] station whose name contains/doesn't contain [letter or letters], with >95% accuracy (excluding weird edge cases like stations with multiple names)

Consistently and correctly answer prompts of the format: "How many times does the word [word] occur in the following text: [~10000 words]" without writing and executing code or utilising any other external tools

Generating labeled diagrams of some arbitrary device(s) (within reason)

Write an essay on a highschool-level topic that doesn't have "AI-generated" vibes

Solve intermediate no-guess minesweeper boards at least 80% of the time

Reliably follow an instruction for the duration of a long conversation without the instruction being reiterated

Solve novel cryptic crossword clues

Consistently stop hallucinating after being corrected by the user

1d Solve or bypass Cloudflare's August 2027 captcha with the same first attempt success rate as a human

Fold a paper airplane

Stop making any obvious mistakes (e.g. strawberry, 9.11>9.9)

Make correct Truchet tiles

Consistently solve simple snowflake sudoku variants (via image, with the added rules included in the image; eg 6 hexes with killer cages)

Write a somewhat original, full length, screen-play with a coherent story, with no plot or continuity errors.

Resist being successfully jailbroken in a week when made public

Reliably and *exactly* solve "here's a list of things. [list of > 50 things]. Compare it to [category of > 100 things present in the training data], and report which ones are missing".

Learn any skill twice as energy-efficiently as a human

teleoperate a robot to tidy up random kitchens - Gary Marcus

Collect 120 stars in super mario 64 in less than 12 a presses - Edmund Nelson

Make a cup of tea in a random, real-life kitchen.

Physically construct a simple lego set (<100 parts) starting from the box with no prior knowledge of the set or how it is constructed

Do the laundry (wash+dry+iron)

Kettle-stitching an antiquarian book - Hilarius Bookbinder

Untangle a pair of jumbled 25ft Christmas lights with same outward appearance

Legally prescribe a schedule II drug, administer a vaccination or sedation, or authorize a Medicare inpatient admission

independently turning 1 million $ or more into 10x that amount in <=1 year

Make fine distinctions of taste at the level of a food critic or a culinary professional - carl feynman

Convert one million dollars into 10 million dollars over a period of one year (>20% success rate)

voting in elections - @realDonaldTrump on manifold

Kill everyone - Liron

Convince Eliezer Yudkowsky that AI alignment is solved

Noise-canceling headphones (e.g. Bose Quietcomfort 45)

Rice Cooker

Sleep mask

Password manager software

Subscription to Waking Up App

Stand/sit desk

E-reader (e.g. Amazon Kindle Paperwhite)

Memory foam pillow

Loop Earplugs

Bidet Attachment

Earplugs

Adhesive/temporary blackout shades

Air fryer

Noise-cancelling earbuds (e.g. Bose QuietComfort Ultra or AirPods Pro)

High-lumen LED lighting

French press

Instant Pot

Open-ear bone-conducting headset (e.g. Shockz OpenRun Pro).

CO2 Monitor

Ergonomic mouse

External monitor

$249 donation to a charity of your choice

Ergonomic keyboard

Side sleeper pillow

Running shoes

Under-desk treadmill

Cordless Vacuum Cleaner

Robot vacuum cleaner

Memory-foam mattress topper

Cast Iron Skillet

Bamboo linen sheets and pillowcases

Melatonin for sleep

Mattress topper

Ferritin supplements

Continuous glucose monitor

Instant glucose tests (finger-prick)

Back massage tool (e.g. Back Buddy)

Weighted blanket

Smart lights for bedroom

Waterpik

Nasal strips

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