Improvisational Games as a Benchmark for Social Intelligence of AI Agents: The Case of Connections
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.
| Authors | Gaurav Rajesh Parikh, Angikar Ghosal |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 31 March 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 31 March 2026 |
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