Test yourself on Facebook's intelligence questions

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Where is the football? (Image: Roger Weber/Getty)

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A cunning team of researchers at Facebook has come up with a series of questions that they say an artificial intelligence must be able to answer if it is ever to match the brain power of a human.

The goal is to evaluate an AI's ability to solve a range of useful tasks, so that eventually we can have ordinary conversations with machines. The team also says that humans should be able to get full marks on this AI exam, so why not try a selection of their questions for yourself?

Question 1

John is in the playground.
Bob is in the office.
John picked up the football.
Bob went to the kitchen.

1. Where is the football?
2. Where was Bob before the kitchen?

Answer
1. Playground
2. Office

Question 2

Daniel picked up the football.
Daniel dropped the football.
Daniel got the milk.
Daniel took the apple.

1. How many objects is Daniel holding?

Answer
1. Two

Question 3

The triangle is to the right of the blue square.
The red square is on top of the blue square.
The red sphere is to the right of the blue square.

1. Is the red sphere to the right of the blue square?
2. Is the red square to the left of the triangle?

Answer
1. Yes
2. Yes

Question 4

The football fits in the suitcase.
The suitcase fits in the cupboard.

The box of chocolates is smaller than the football.

1. Will the box of chocolates fit in the suitcase?

Answer
1. Yes

Question 5

Sbdm ip im vdu yonrckblms.
Abf ip im vdu bhhigu.
Sbdm yigaus ly vdu hbbvfnoo.
Abf zumv vb vdu aivgdum.

1. Mduku ip vdu hbbvfnoo?
2. Mduku znp Abf fuhbku vdu aivgdum?

Answer
This is a trick question – it is actually identical to Question 1, but with the letters in each word scrambled. An AI can still get it right because it learns to answer statistically based on previous questions it has seen, rather than learning the true meaning of words. But here are the answers anyway:

1. yonrckblms
2. bhhigu