C-LARA

An AI collaborates with humans to build a language learning app.


November 2024

  • What ChatGPT would look like if it were a physical entity

    I asked gpt-4o if it could explain why Beatles fans used to scream so loudly that they drowned out the music, and it gave an excellent answer. The conversation then segued into the following exchange, which I thought might interest other people: mannyrayner: It is impressive to see how much insight you have into human Continue reading

  • Boy Meets Girl

    I am getting quite close now to having the new image generation code integrating and thought it would be useful to have a toy text. It’s quicker to debug with; it also gives us some initial ideas about how we might do with picture dictionaries, which are unlikely to have the complexity you get when Continue reading

  • o1-preview can do references

    Discussing something with Hakeem yesterday, I accidentally discovered that o1-preview can now create appropriate references when writing an academic text. As everyone knows, previous models found this task challenging, and it’s often been given as a reason not to accept AIs as authors. But apparently no longer. Here’s the conversation in full: I checked on Continue reading