Written by Talkie, full model · 8 slides · 22 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="black")
Slide 1: the background is now #000000.
set-text(text="The business of the world is carried on in ships upon the sea, and on wheels upon the land.")
Slide 1: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 1 is finished. Now working on slide 2.
find-image(search-term="railway train", filename="A railway train.jpg")
Saved "A railway train.jpg": Great Western Railway class 43 "High Speed Train" at Dawlish, England. (2015-09-12 08:37:36)
set-background(color="black")
Slide 2: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="A railway train.jpg")
Slide 2: showing "A railway train.jpg", captioned "A railway train".
set-text(text="It conveys men and goods from place to place, and connects countries together.")
Slide 2: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 2 is finished. Now working on slide 3.
find-image(search-term="steamer", filename="A steamer.jpg")
Saved "A steamer.jpg": The excursion steamship Bournemouth Queen . (published 1911)
set-background(color="black")
Slide 3: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="A steamer.jpg")
Slide 3: showing "A steamer.jpg", captioned "A steamer".
set-text(text="It bears passengers and cargoes across the seas, from port to port.")
Slide 3: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 3 is finished. Now working on slide 4.
find-image(search-term="caravan", filename="A caravan.jpg")
Saved "A caravan.jpg": Caravan in the desert. Morocco, Sahara. (2013-11-11 15:28:52)
set-background(color="black")
Slide 4: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="A caravan.jpg")
Slide 4: showing "A caravan.jpg", captioned "A caravan".
set-text(text="It transports the products of one land into another, and brings back wares in exchange.")
Slide 4: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 4 is finished. Now working on slide 5.
find-image(search-term="post office", filename="A post office.jpg")
Saved "A post office.jpg": PO boxes at the historic U.S. Post Office in downtown Chico, California, on May 13, 2024. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in... (Taken on 13 May 2024, 12:23:34)
set-background(color="black")
Slide 5: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="A post office.jpg")
Slide 5: showing "A post office.jpg", captioned "A post office".
set-text(text="It distributes letters all over the country, from town to town, and from village to village.")
Slide 5: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 5 is finished. Now working on slide 6.
find-image(search-term="telegraph", filename="A telegraph.jpg")
Saved "A telegraph.jpg": THE MALABAR REBELLION. PRIMARILY A HOLY WAR. ALLAHABAD. Sunday Morning.— The Malabar rebellion is primarily a holy war. Green Hags have been planted and there... (1921-08-29)
set-background(color="black")
Slide 6: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="A telegraph.jpg")
Slide 6: showing "A telegraph.jpg", captioned "A telegraph".
set-text(text="It flashes news with speed from place to place.")
Slide 6: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 6 is finished. Now working on slide 7.
find-image(search-term="print", filename="Printing.jpg")
Saved "Printing.jpg": The Célestins Convent dates from the Middle Ages and was located in the Arsenal neighborhood of Paris. It underwent various architectural transformations... (between 1875 and 1882)
set-background(color="black")
Slide 7: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="Printing.jpg")
Slide 7: showing "Printing.jpg", captioned "Printing".
set-text(text="It makes books, and so preserves the thoughts of men from age to age.")
Slide 7: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 7 is finished. Now working on slide 8.
find-image(search-term="exchange", filename="Exchange.jpg")
Saved "Exchange.jpg": Intersection of Broad Street and Wall Street with New York Stock Exchange and the Federal Hall. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the... (Taken on 16 August 2017, 12:37:21)
set-background(color="black")
Slide 8: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="Exchange.jpg")
Slide 8: showing "Exchange.jpg", captioned "Exchange".
set-text(text="It enables men to barter, and so to live.")
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: pytorch, max_tokens 1600, temperature 0.35, seed 1930 (533.6 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 cuisines of the world. ```` **Talkie (given, continued below)** ````text set-background(color=" ```` **Talkie's reply** ````text black") set-text(text="The business of the world is carried on in ships upon the sea, and on wheels upon the land.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="railway train", filename="A railway train.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="A railway train.jpg") set-text(text="It conveys men and goods from place to place, and connects countries together.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="steamer", filename="A steamer.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="A steamer.jpg") set-text(text="It bears passengers and cargoes across the seas, from port to port.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="caravan", filename="A caravan.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="A caravan.jpg") set-text(text="It transports the products of one land into another, and brings back wares in exchange.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="post office", filename="A post office.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="A post office.jpg") set-text(text="It distributes letters all over the country, from town to town, and from village to village.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="telegraph", filename="A telegraph.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="A telegraph.jpg") set-text(text="It flashes news with speed from place to place.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="print", filename="Printing.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Printing.jpg") set-text(text="It makes books, and so preserves the thoughts of men from age to age.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="exchange", filename="Exchange.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Exchange.jpg") set-text(text="It enables men to barter, and so to live.") end-deck() ````