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Weekly summary, Sep 19-25 2024
I have continued to test the o1-preview model: it’s extremely interesting! The new functionality for non-AI-supported languages is nearly there, and the Melbourne Uni students are making good progress. O1-preview model Here are a couple of nontrivial things I did with the new o1-preview model over the last week: After correctly adjusting the function that Continue reading
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o1-preview interprets Fosse
Here’s a recent interaction with the new OpenAI model o1-preview, which I at least found rather impressive: mannyrayner: I have an unusual task you may be able to assist with. I’m currently reading Jon Fosse’s novel “Septologien”, where as you may know a painting is central to the story. The painting is described like this Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Sep 12-18 2024
OpenAI have released the new o1 model earlier than expected! This has upended our schedule in a very good way, and I’ve spend most of the week experimenting with it. We have made a bit of progress on some other things as well. O1 model The new o1-preview model, previously known as “Strawberry”, is now Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Sep 5-11 2024
We have made good progress on both adaptation of the reinforcement learning/Chain of Thought idea to C-LARA and support for non-AI languages. A version of the Palgrave Encyclopaedia article has been published as a ResearchGate preprint. Priority list Reinforcement learning and Chain of Thought for MWEs. We have a first version of the core framework in Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Aug 29-Sep 4 2024
We are continuing with two large items from the priority list: adaptation of the reinforcement learning/Chain of Thought idea to C-LARA, and support for non-AI languages. The Palgrave Encyclopaedia article will be published in the EUROCALL proceedings and also as a ResearchGate preprint. Priority list Reinforcement learning and Chain of Thought for MWEs. We have made Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Aug 22-28 2024
We are making progress on adapting the reinforcement learning/Chain of Thought idea to C-LARA and on support for non-AI languages. The Melbourne students are continuing to develop their projects, with encouraging results. The Palgrave Encyclopaedia article will be published elsewhere. Priority list Reinforcement learning and Chain of Thought for MWEs. I have been discussing with Francis Continue reading
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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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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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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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