Report: “Researchers Test AI Systems’ Ability to Solve The New York Times’ Connections Puzzle”

From NYU Tandon:
Can artificial intelligence (AI) match human skills for finding obscure connections between words? Researchers at NYU Tandon School of Engineering turned to the daily Connections puzzle from The New York Times to find out.
Source: NYU Tandon
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With Julian Togelius, NYU Tandon Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Director of the Game Innovation Lab, as the study’s senior author, the team explored two AI approaches. The first leveraged GPT-3