A crossword-solving AI has beaten more than a thousand of the best human solvers at the prestigious American Crossword Puzzle Tournament
Technology
27 May 2022
Solvers warm up before the start of play at the 2022 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy
AI has beaten more than a thousand of the best human crossword solvers at a prestigious competition and can complete The New York Times crossword more than 80 per cent of the time.
Dan Klein at the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues created a two-part AI model called the Berkeley Crossword Solver (BCS) as a collaborative project during the covid-19 lockdown.
One component analysed individual crossword clues and created a range of solutions that …