DeepMind is testing AIs to see how well they understand our thoughts

Do computers know what we are thinking? To find out, Google's artificial intelligence lab DeepMind has created a set of gruelling tests that probe AI's progress in understanding the world. No AIs have passed the tests yet, but one got extremely close. The tests examine theory of mind – the ability to reason about another's beliefs – and are inspired by classic experiments in psychology. Each test consists of a short paragraph describing a scenario involving people and a few questions for AI to answer about it.