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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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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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