UC Berkeley’s Automated Crossword Solver Achieves 99.9% Letter Accuracy, Wins Top Tournament

Another traditional human pastime taken over by machine learning!

How would have my late grandparents and passionate crossword solvers responded to these news?

 

UC Berkeley’s Automated Crossword Solver Achieves 99.9% Letter Accuracy, Wins Top Tournament | Synced In the new paper Automated Crossword Solving, researchers from UC Berkeley and Matthew Ginsberg LLC present the Berkeley Crossword Solver (BCS), an end-to-end state-of-the-art system for automatically solving challenging crossword puzzles that captured first place in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.