Written by Talkie, fast model · 8 slides · 21 Oct 2026
A note on Talkie’s views. Talkie writes as someone of its time: it can repeat the attitudes and prejudices found in writing from before 1931, including racist, antisemitic and colonial views, stated as fact. Its decks are shown as it wrote them, for research; they are not the views of this project.
Each slide's title, then its text, is read aloud by Kokoro, a free local voice (British male, bm_george); each slide stays up half a second before and a second after its words.
Two parts, scored 1 (low) to 10 (high) on the same five qualities: first the prompt alone, then what Talkie made of it, so Talkie's work can be judged apart from the prompt's own creativity. Written feedback is optional.
Evaluations made here are recorded as unblinded, since the deck is in view. For a blind evaluation, use blind review.
Talkie writes a new version. Its worked example is this deck's own working commands, so it builds on what worked; your direction becomes the request, put into the one form Talkie follows. The new deck is saved as the next version of this one, and can be evaluated in its turn.
Research data: evaluations CSV / JSONL, revisions JSONL, versions JSONL, events JSONL.
set-background(color=" (the worked example's first words, so that it writes a deck rather than an answer)set-background(color="muscle") set-image(filename="Muscle is built up from food."
That instruction could not be carried out: not a command: 'set-background(color="muscle") set-image(filename="Muscle is built up from food."'
set-text(text="Food supplies the material for it.")
Slide 1: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 1 is finished. Now working on slide 2.
find-image(search-term="meat and bread", filename="Meat and bread.jpg")
Saved "Meat and bread.jpg": Holy Family distributing alms on their journey to Egypt to escape from Herod's harassment. Various foods – plates in the foreground, meats, ham, lard, smoked... (1551)
set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Meat and bread.jpg")
That instruction could not be carried out: not a command: 'set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Meat and bread.jpg")'
set-text(text="Meat and bread are the chief materials of muscle.")
Slide 2: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 2 is finished. Now working on slide 3.
find-image(search-term="water", filename="Water.jpg")
Saved "Water.jpg": Three Bubalus bubalis (water buffaloes) bathing in the Mekong in Don An (Si Phan Don, Laos) with their heads above water. These buffaloes are often cooling... (2018-03-18 16:51:59)
set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Water.jpg")
That instruction could not be carried out: not a command: 'set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Water.jpg")'
set-text(text="Water also helps to build it up.")
Slide 3: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 3 is finished. Now working on slide 4.
find-image(search-term="salt", filename="Salt.jpg")
Saved "Salt.jpg": The life of a salt pan worker is harsh especially at a daily wage of few hundred rupees. Marakkanam in Tamil Nadu, India has many salt pans where they produce... (2012-06-07 11:31:25)
set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Salt.jpg")
That instruction could not be carried out: not a command: 'set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Salt.jpg")'
set-text(text="Salt is added to make the blood fluid.")
Slide 4: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 4 is finished. Now working on slide 5.
find-image(search-term="exercise", filename="Exercise.jpg")
Saved "Exercise.jpg": Physical exercise at Witley Camp (1916)
set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Exercise.jpg")
That instruction could not be carried out: not a command: 'set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Exercise.jpg")'
set-text(text="Exercise helps to form and strengthen it.")
Slide 5: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 5 is finished. Now working on slide 6.
find-image(search-term="air", filename="Air.jpg")
Saved "Air.jpg": Illustration of "air" from Orbis Pictus by J. A. Comenius (1658), as depicted in The Great Didactic of John Amos Comenius (1896) (1658)
set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Air.jpg")
That instruction could not be carried out: not a command: 'set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Air.jpg")'
set-text(text="Air is needed to purify the blood.")
Slide 6: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 6 is finished. Now working on slide 7.
find-image(search-term="sleep", filename="Sleep.jpg")
Saved "Sleep.jpg": Sleeping baby. Baby's sleep. Moscow, Russia. (2012-05-22 15:46:49)
set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Sleep.jpg")
That instruction could not be carried out: not a command: 'set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Sleep.jpg")'
set-text(text="Sleep repairs the waste of exercise.")
Slide 7: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 7 is finished. Now working on slide 8.
find-image(search-term="bones", filename="Bones.jpg")
Saved "Bones.jpg": Ebony Bones backup singer at the Festival Cruïlla Barcelona 2010 in Barcelona. (2010-07-18 01:42)
set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Bones.jpg")
That instruction could not be carried out: not a command: 'set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Bones.jpg")'
set-text(text="The bones support the muscles.")
Slide 8: text added.
end-deck()
The deck is finished (8 slides in all).
Found by description on Wikimedia Commons and Openverse: public domain, CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA only. Neither Talkie nor the deck runner sees them; each is captioned with the filename its author chose.
# Transcript: 1 call to Talkie ## Call 1: llama-server, max_tokens 1600, temperature 0.35, seed 1930 (143.3 s) **User** ````text You are to make a slide deck by writing commands, one on each line. These are the commands: find-image(search-term="WORDS", filename="NAME.jpg") finds a picture of WORDS and keeps it under the name NAME.jpg. set-background(color="COLOUR") colours the whole slide, for example "navy", "ivory", "black" or "crimson". set-image(filename="NAME.jpg") shows a picture you have already found. set-text(text="WORDS") writes words at the bottom of the slide; set-text(text="") removes them. next-slide() finishes the slide and begins a new, empty one. end-deck() ends the deck; write it once, after the last slide. All the text messages must be meaningful when strung together: read one after another, from the first slide to the last, they should make one connected account. Write only commands. Make a slide deck about the sea. ```` **Talkie** ````text set-background(color="navy") set-text(text="The sea covers the greater part of the world.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="ocean waves", filename="Ocean waves.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Ocean waves.jpg") set-text(text="Its waves are raised by the wind,") next-slide() find-image(search-term="tide on the shore", filename="The tide.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="The tide.jpg") set-text(text="and twice each day its tide rises and falls upon the shore.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="sailing ship", filename="A sailing ship.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="A sailing ship.jpg") set-text(text="Upon its waters men have sailed ships since ancient times,") next-slide() find-image(search-term="lighthouse", filename="A lighthouse.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="A lighthouse.jpg") set-text(text="guided at night by lighthouses upon the rocks.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="fishing boats", filename="Fishing boats.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Fishing boats.jpg") set-text(text="Fishermen draw from it a great harvest of fish,") next-slide() find-image(search-term="whale", filename="A whale.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="A whale.jpg") set-text(text="and in its depths swims the whale, the largest of all creatures.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="storm at sea", filename="A storm at sea.jpg") set-background(color="navy") set-image(filename="A storm at sea.jpg") set-text(text="Yet for all our ships, the sea remains as wide and wild as ever.") end-deck() ```` **User** ````text Make a slide deck about how to build muscle. ```` **Talkie (given, continued below)** ````text set-background(color=" ```` **Grammar the reply had to follow** ````text root ::= ([^\n]* "\n")* "end-deck()" ```` **Talkie's reply** ````text muscle") set-image(filename="Muscle is built up from food." set-text(text="Food supplies the material for it.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="meat and bread", filename="Meat and bread.jpg") set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Meat and bread.jpg") set-text(text="Meat and bread are the chief materials of muscle.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="water", filename="Water.jpg") set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Water.jpg") set-text(text="Water also helps to build it up.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="salt", filename="Salt.jpg") set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Salt.jpg") set-text(text="Salt is added to make the blood fluid.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="exercise", filename="Exercise.jpg") set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Exercise.jpg") set-text(text="Exercise helps to form and strengthen it.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="air", filename="Air.jpg") set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Air.jpg") set-text(text="Air is needed to purify the blood.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="sleep", filename="Sleep.jpg") set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Sleep.jpg") set-text(text="Sleep repairs the waste of exercise.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="bones", filename="Bones.jpg") set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Bones.jpg") set-text(text="The bones support the muscles.") end-deck() ````