Normally I'd ask "why are we comparing AI to the human mind when they're not the same thing at all," but I feel like we're presupposing they are similar already with this test so I am curious to the answer on this one.

I would guess it's because a lot of AI users see their choice of AI as an all-knowing human-like thinking tool. In which case it's not a weird test question, even when the assumption that it "thinks" is wronh