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Show HN: Experiments in AI-generation of crosswords

Crosswords -- Bill Moorier I've been interested in computer-generated crosswords for a long time, and have written several computer programs of my own over the years to generate crosswords. Recently, with the addition of modern AI techniques, I've started to feel like the output is getting quite good -- perhaps even beginning to rival something that a human would create.

Recently, with the addition of modern AI techniques, I've started to feel like the output is getting quite good -- perhaps even beginning to rival something that a human would create. With both of these biases present (but turned-down a bit from the above grids), we keep coloring squares black until some target "density" is reached (again I've set that number empirically to make the next step more likely to succeed). One noticeable defect is that the models I've tried tend to not pay close enough attention to the instruction never to use the solution word anywhere in the clue.

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