I started playing the NYTimes word game “Connections” recently, by the recommendation of a few friends. It has the type of freshness that Wordle lost for me a long time ago. After playing Connections for a few days, I wondered if an OpenAI language model could solve the game (the objective is to group the 16 words into 4 categories of 4 words). I tried with gpt-4k-32k and gpt-4-1106-preview, tweaking prompts for a few hours and wasn’t able to make much progress. It’s certainly possible prompt en...