C-LARA

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

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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