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Weekly summary, Aug 15-21 2024
We have first versions of two large items from the priority list, parallelism and better support for non-AI languages. The Melbourne students are starting to set up their projects. Priority list Parallelism. A first version of parallelism for annotation is now installed on the server. Processing is much faster, particularly if you use MWE. I… Continue reading
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Inappropriate?
One of the most interesting things about ChatGPT is its sense of humour, which often overrides its other constraints. I had a couple of striking examples this week. First, I wondered if the AI would consent to write something about the bizarre rumours concerning JD Vance and the couch. I was sure a straight request… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Aug 8-14 2024
The AI and I have continued working on the list of priority items. We have submitted our article to the Palgrave Encyclopaedia of CALL, and I’ve been talking with the students at Melbourne Uni. Priority list We are continuing with the priority list: as before, the completed ones are marked [done]. The most interesting new pieces of… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Aug 1-7 2024
This week, the AI and I have started crossing items off the list of priority items I posted on Jul 26. Branislav, the AI and I have been collaborating on an article for upcoming Palgrave Encyclopaedia of CALL, and I’ve been getting things ready for supervising new groups of students at Melbourne Uni. Priority list… Continue reading
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Priorities for next phase
Over the last couple of weeks, the AI and I took some time out to do a study on using GPT-4 to play Tic-Tac-Toe. It may sound frivolous, but it’s provided some remarkably useful insights into how to do GPT-4 prompting better. I’ve also got a lot of comments from C-LARA users, both from our… Continue reading
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Biweekly summary, July 2-17 2024
We were away for a bit more than a week while Cathy was playing a bridge tournament, so I haven’t been working on C-LARA as much as usual during this period. I have however been experimenting with using GPT-4 in a different context, which has turned up some interesting ideas with parallelism and few-shot examples… Continue reading
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One-and-a-half-weekly summary, June 20-July 1 2024
Over the last ten days, I’ve concentrated on improving coherent image sets and glossing, developed some preliminary hypotheses about what kinds of texts work well for picture books, and had some interesting conversations with AI philosophy expert David Gunkel. Coherent image sets Working together with the AI, I have further refined the process for creating… Continue reading
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Heroes of English Grammar
Based on our initial experiments with pedagogical picture stories (“Supermodel Lisa”, etc), I’ve been discussing with ChatGPT-4o the possibility of creating a complete book, tentatively entitled Heroes of English Grammar. Here is the AI’s preliminary table of contents, together with a mockup of the cover: Detective Diego Loves Direct and Indirect Speech Chef Clara Loves… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, June 13-19 2024
This week, I’ve been testing the picture book functionality, added some features people have suggested for segment translations and pinyin, fixed some bugs, and started looking at the Esperanto subproject again. Picture books I’ve created a first example of a picture book intended to serve a real purpose. A bridge player friend has recently married… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, June 6-12 2024
Over the last month, people who’ve been following this blog will have seen that we’ve made substantial progress on picture books and multi-word expressions. We now have usable functionality installed on the server, and I’ve collected things together in an interim tech report which I’ve just posted here on ResearchGate. This includes instructions for using… Continue reading
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