‘Connections’ December 6: Hints and Answers for Game [Video]

Connections is a fun game published by The New York Times.

And researchers from the New York University Tandon School of Engineering have pit humans against AI to see if computers can solve Connections better than us.

“Large Language Models are becoming increasingly widespread, and investigating where they fail in the context of the Connections puzzle can reveal limitations in how they process semantic information,” Graham Todd, a Ph.D. student at the NYU Game Innovation Lab, said in a statement in May.

They found in their research that AI was still far from mastering the game.

“Our research confirms prior work showing this sort of ‘chain-of-thought’ prompting can make language models think in more structured ways,” said Timothy Merino, another Ph.D. student. “Asking the language models to reason about the tasks that they’re accomplishing helps them perform better.”