How to Find the Smartest AI

THE DIZZYING array of letters splattered across the page of one of Jonathan Roberts’s visual-reasoning questions resembles a word search assembled by a sadist. Test-takers aren’t merely tasked with finding the hidden words in the image, but with spotting a question written in the shape of a star and then answering that in turn (see below).

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This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Extra credit”