NYT Games

This talk explores the New York Times Connections word game as a case study for evaluating AI's abstract reasoning capabilities. The presenter, a game developer at the NYT Games team, details independent research into how AI can approach solving the game, which involves grouping 16 words into four sets of four related terms. The research investigates the game's potential as a benchmarking tool, highlighting how its intentional decoys and need for explainable reasoning challenge current AI models.