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The AI Model that Beat Every Human at the World’s Top Crossword Tournament
The model combines question-answering and probabilistic inference to achieve super human performance in crossword puzzle solving.
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Crossword puzzles are fun and challenging. Solving a crossword puzzle does not only requires diverse subject knowledge but also advanced linguistic reasoning and common sense. The solution to a crossword puzzle goes through the interpretation of vague clues often expressed in a purposely confusing semantic structure. Its not surprising that crossword puzzles have often seen as one of those bastions that can resist the brute force memorization of large language models. Well, not…
