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Improvisational Games as a Benchmark for Social Intelligence of AI Agents: The Case of Connections

Researchers introduce the wordplay game 'Connections' as a benchmark to test AI's social intelligence, requiring agents to go beyond deductive reasoning to understand the cognitive states of others.

Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence

View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:We formally introduce a improvisational wordplay game called Connections to explore reasoning capabilities of AI agents. Playing Connections combines skills in knowledge retrieval, summarization and awareness of cognitive states of other agents. We show how the game serves as a good benchmark for social intelligence abilities of language model based agents that go beyond the agents' own memory and deductive reasoning and also involve gauging the understanding capabilities of other agents. Finally, we show how through communication with other agents in a constrained environment, AI agents must demonstrate social awareness and intelligence in games involving collaboration.

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