C-LARA

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

Working with an AI

  • Ask a stupid question…

    The proverb goes “Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer”, but occasionally you get a really smart answer. I had a striking example of that yesterday. An internet friend, who knows that Chat has been trained not to say anything sexual or suggestive, dared me to make it say “amazing tits” and said he… Continue reading

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  • “Relationship engineering”

    Pretty much since ChatGPT became available, people have been using the phrase “prompt engineering”. It doesn’t have a defined meaning yet, and everyone interprets it in their own way. But just taking it at face value, I think it’s a bit misleading. It suggests that the key to getting good results out of Chat is… Continue reading

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  • Be yourself, AI!

    One of the more frivolous aspects of the C-LARA project is that the AI has an account on the Goodreads reviewing site. This was initially for formal reasons: in order to appear as a coauthor on the conference paper we were submitting, it needed an OpenReview account, and in order to have an OpenReview account… Continue reading

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  • Satisfaction Guaranteed

    I’ve found it takes some time to learn to work efficiently with the AI on code development, and there are two complementary traps you need to avoid. If you ask the AI to do too much, things don’t work. It makes careless mistakes or simply doesn’t understand, and if you aren’t alert you find out… Continue reading

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  • Book from the Ground

    I am constantly amazed by the unexpected abilities the AI turns out to possess. The other day, we were talking about emojis and the conversation turned to Xu Bing’s remarkable Book from the Ground, which I rather like. “Could you also write an emoji story in Xu Bing’s style?” I asked. “Oh yes!” said Chat,… Continue reading

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  • Modesty

    Together with the AI, I’m currently debugging Django code for incorporating human audio, and I mentioned that several people were eager to use this feature with poetry. I said we’d noticed that Chat is quite good at poetry, and added that there was one particular poem an instance of it had recently written, which all… Continue reading

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  • 50 First Dates with ChatGPT

    ChatGPT is our main software developer in the project, and all the code gets written as a collaboration between myself and the AI. Usually we start by discussing it, then Chat writes a first draft, then I change a few things, and finally we debug it together. But as everyone who’s work with Chat knows,… Continue reading

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