Beyond being able to solve Connections, can a LLM generate (good/challenging/solvable) connections? Would be pretty cool to be able to generate a test set.
I’d be surprised if they’re not using AI or some sort of rule-based generator at this point.
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#12Why is Gemini given 4 Xs for #547?
It has "Group 3" correct. It should be marked as having 1/4 groups correct.
Same thing happened on #535, Gemini actually got "Group 1" correct but was marked 0/4 correct.
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#13Spoiler alert
I do them in the morning and didn't even recognized the one from today at firsts!
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#14Beyond being able to solve Connections, can a LLM generate (good/challenging/solvable) connections? Would be pretty cool to be able to generate a test set.
Took a bit of prompting and a few awful ones, but ultimately it's not bad.
https://chatgpt.com/share/67570ab1-b2c0-8006-b5d2-d3fa7132de...
Going to try to feed this into some other LLMs like qwq and see if they can solve them.
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#16Beyond being able to solve Connections, can a LLM generate (good/challenging/solvable) connections? Would be pretty cool to be able to generate a test set.
I’d be surprised if they’re not using AI or some sort of rule-based generator at this point.
But creating one must be even funnier than trying to solve it, right?
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#17This is completely unsurprising as the latent space that LLM's rely on basically is a giant web of Connections.
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#18> Correct group with the wrong connection
This seems highly subjective. We should not care about this. The game is to connect the words, not find the connection. For human players, it doesn't matter if you get the connection or not.
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#19Beyond being able to solve Connections, can a LLM generate (good/challenging/solvable) connections? Would be pretty cool to be able to generate a test set.
Took a bit of prompting and a few awful ones, but ultimately it's not bad. https://chatgpt.com/share/67570ab1-b2c0-8006-b5d2-d3fa7132de... Going to try to feed this into some other LLMs like qwq and see if they can solve them.
QwQ gets it wrong, Gemini gets it wrong. o1 gets it right, R1 gets a pretty good not originally intended set of 4... tempted to give it partial credit. 4o gets it wrong. Will update with claude once my usage limits are up lol.
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#20This is very cool. It seems like the prompt is asking the LLM to one shot an answer. Have you tried asking it to make a group, confirm whether it's correct, and repeat with the remaining words? (like a human would)