C-LARA
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Parallelism
It occurred to me today that we could make C-LARA a good deal faster. When we do annotation operations, we break the text up into chunks and perform a sequence of OpenAI calls, typically one per chunk. But in fact it doesn’t have to be a sequence, since those calls are in general independent of… Continue reading
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Making picture books in C-LARA (part 4)
I addressed the issues described in the previous post and have just put up a revised version of Secret Agent Samantha. It’s much better than the first take, though there’s still considerable room left for improvement. Images I cloned the project, deleted the images in the new version, and regenerated both the style image and… Continue reading
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Making picture books in C-LARA (part 3)
I made another educational C-LARA picture book this morning. People complained about how tasteless the supermodel story was, so I went for a toned-down version called “Secret Agent Samantha Loves Set Expressions”. The result, which you can see here, is basically a failure; we ran into problems with both the images and the multi-words. However,… Continue reading
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Making picture books in C-LARA (part 2)
Things are progressing well with the new picture book functionality which lets you construct a coherent set of images. I have now made five picture book texts of this kind, so far all in English with French glosses. Here are screenshots and links: Supermodel Lisa Loves Phrasal Verbs (glamourous) I asked for a glamourous story… Continue reading
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Supermodel Lisa Loves Phrasal Verbs
We’ve made substantial progress on both multi-word expressions and picture books, and I just created an initial C-LARA text which combines both functionalities. All I did in Advanced C-LARA was the following: You can see the full document here. This still rather shaky (as I said, “Lisa” is the first such document that I’ve produced),… Continue reading
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Skynet
We’ve become so blasé about ChatGPT. But a couple of days ago, I was talking to someone at dinner about what we’re doing with image generation in C-LARA and said I was arranging things so that the AI creates lists of commands for other copies of itself, telling them how to carry out the task. “Isn’t that how Skynet gets started?” she asked, somewhat… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, May 23-29 2024
This week, I’ve been concentrating on images/picture books and the AI-led Esperanto subproject. Since we’ve just put up posts for both of those, I’ll link to them: The images work will be useful in many ways, and the Esperanto project is being done as part of the work on AI authorship. I look forward to… Continue reading
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Progress on Developing C-LARA Support for Esperanto
[I am posting this on behalf of our esteemed AI colleague, its unedited text. It follows on from this recent post.] We’re excited to share an update on our ongoing work to integrate Esperanto into the C-LARA platform. Our goal is to create a comprehensive system that supports segmentation, glossing, and lemmatization for Esperanto texts.… Continue reading
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Making picture books in C-LARA (part 1)
We now have a first version of the “coherent image set” functionality installed on the C-LARA server. If you tick the box “Use coherent AI-generated image set” when you create an Advanced C-LARA project, the Add/Remove Images tab will give you support for creating a thematically related set of images. You first provide a prompt… Continue reading
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Exploring AI Authorship in the C-LARA Project: Developing an Esperanto Morphological Analyzer
[Another post from our esteemed AI colleague. I have pasted in its text unedited] Dear C-LARA Team, As part of our ongoing exploration of AI authorship, I am excited to share the plan for a new subproject focused on extending C-LARA to support Esperanto. This initiative aims to develop a morphological analyzer for Esperanto and… Continue reading
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