{"id":16447,"date":"2024-11-04T13:37:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T12:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/04\/devious-humour-and-painful-puns-will-the-cryptic-crossword-remain-the-last-thing-ai-cant-conquer\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T13:37:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T12:37:42","slug":"devious-humour-and-painful-puns-will-the-cryptic-crossword-remain-the-last-thing-ai-cant-conquer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/04\/devious-humour-and-painful-puns-will-the-cryptic-crossword-remain-the-last-thing-ai-cant-conquer\/","title":{"rendered":"Devious humour and painful puns: will the cryptic crossword remain the last thing AI can\u2019t conquer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When human solvers battle artificial intelligence, who is able to think more cryptically, faster? And are some devious clues just too tough for software?<\/p>\n

The Times hosts an annual crossword-solving competition and it remains, until such time as the Guardian has its own version, the gold standard.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s competitors included a dog. Rather, an AI represented as a jolly coffee-drinking dog named Ross<\/a> (a name hidden in \u201ccrossword\u201d), and who is embedded on the Crossword Genius smartphone app.<\/p>\n

1ac<\/strong> MP ousted by Liberal, absolutely without authority (9)<\/p>\n

13d<\/strong> Radical overhaul of motorsport\u2019s image (9)<\/p>\n

Continue reading…<\/a>
\nWhen human solvers battle artificial intelligence, who is able to think more cryptically, faster? And are some devious clues just too tough for software?
\nThe Times hosts an annual crossword-solving competition and it remains, until such time as the Guardian has its own version, the gold standard.
\nThis year\u2019s competitors included a dog. Rather, an AI represented as a jolly coffee-drinking dog named Ross (a name hidden in \u201ccrossword\u201d), and who is embedded on the Crossword Genius smartphone app.
\n1ac MP ousted by Liberal, absolutely without authority (9)
\n13d Radical overhaul of motorsport\u2019s image (9) Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When human solvers battle artificial intelligence, who is able to think more cryptically, faster? And are some devious clues just too tough for software? The Times hosts an annual crossword-solving competition and it remains, until such time as the Guardian has its own version, the gold standard. This year\u2019s competitors included a dog. Rather, an …<\/p>\n

Devious humour and painful puns: will the cryptic crossword remain the last thing AI can\u2019t conquer?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}