Play a version of the game that researchers are using to track AI’s progress toward artificial general intelligence. Why It’s So Hard to Test for Intelligence There are infinite kinds of intelligence, even in humans. The History of AI Intelligence TestsOver the years, many people have presented machines with grand challenges that purported to require intelligence on par with our own. IBM’s Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, butdidn’t have enough general intelligence to play checkers. Researchers keep rolling out benchmarks that probe different aspects of general intelligence.