Written by Talkie, full model · 7 slides · 25 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="brown")
Slide 1: the background is now #7a4a26.
set-image(filename="Cookie.jpg")
Slide 1: "Cookie.jpg" will be found when the slide is finished, to suit its words; it will be captioned "Cookie".
set-text(text="Draw me a cookie.")
Slide 1: text added.
next-slide()
Saved "Cookie.jpg": Illuminated wooden shelf with many glass jars containing cookies for sale, near Kaminarimon-dori Street, Asakusa , Tokyo , Japan . (Taken on 7 June 2019) Slide 1 is finished. Now working on slide 2.
find-image(search-term="round", filename="Round cookie.jpg")
Saved "Round cookie.jpg": ‘Round Midnight (1740)
set-background(color="brown")
Slide 2: the background is now #7a4a26.
set-image(filename="Round cookie.jpg")
Slide 2: showing "Round cookie.jpg", captioned "Round cookie".
set-text(text="Draw a round cookie.")
Slide 2: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 2 is finished. Now working on slide 3.
find-image(search-term="flat", filename="Flat cookie.jpg")
Saved "Flat cookie.jpg": A "flat-Earth" map drawn by Orlando Ferguson in 1893. The main text reads: MAP OF THE SQUARE AND STATIONARY EARTH. BY PROF. ORLANDO FERGUSON, HOT SPRINGS,... (1893)
set-background(color="brown")
Slide 3: the background is now #7a4a26.
set-image(filename="Flat cookie.jpg")
Slide 3: showing "Flat cookie.jpg", captioned "Flat cookie".
set-text(text="Draw a flat cookie.")
Slide 3: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 3 is finished. Now working on slide 4.
find-image(search-term="baked", filename="Baked cookie.jpg")
Saved "Baked cookie.jpg": Traditionally Eastern Slavic cookies zhavoronki (translated as larks ) or soroki (translated as magpies ). This cookies baked on the day of the march equinox ,... (2012-03-24)
set-background(color="brown")
Slide 4: the background is now #7a4a26.
set-image(filename="Baked cookie.jpg")
Slide 4: showing "Baked cookie.jpg", captioned "Baked cookie".
set-text(text="Draw a baked cookie.")
Slide 4: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 4 is finished. Now working on slide 5.
find-image(search-term="white", filename="White cookie.jpg")
Saved "White cookie.jpg": The White House, Washington, D.C. Site plan and principal story plan, architectural design. (1807)
set-background(color="brown")
Slide 5: the background is now #7a4a26.
set-image(filename="White cookie.jpg")
Slide 5: showing "White cookie.jpg", captioned "White cookie".
set-text(text="Draw a white cookie.")
Slide 5: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 5 is finished. Now working on slide 6.
find-image(search-term="sugar", filename="Sugar cookie.jpg")
Saved "Sugar cookie.jpg": It might look tempting to some. But the sugars in common junk foods like doughtnuts, cakes, chocolate and cookies is immense. Sugar is incredibly damaging when... (2020-07-30 16:14:54)
set-background(color="brown")
Slide 6: the background is now #7a4a26.
set-image(filename="Sugar cookie.jpg")
Slide 6: showing "Sugar cookie.jpg", captioned "Sugar cookie".
set-text(text="Draw a sugar cookie.")
Slide 6: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 6 is finished. Now working on slide 7.
find-image(search-term="sugar plums", filename="Plums on a sugar cookie.jpg")
Saved "Plums on a sugar cookie.jpg": Santa Claus Sugar Plums. Confection label, showing Santa Claus on sleigh with reindeer. (1868)
set-background(color="brown")
Slide 7: the background is now #7a4a26.
set-image(filename="Plums on a sugar cookie.jpg")
Slide 7: showing "Plums on a sugar cookie.jpg", captioned "Plums on a sugar cookie".
set-text(text="Draw plums on a sugar cookie.")
Slide 7: text added.
end-deck()
The deck is finished (7 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 (431.0 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 draw me a cookie. ```` **Talkie (given, continued below)** ````text set-background(color=" ```` **Talkie's reply** ````text brown") set-image(filename="Cookie.jpg") set-text(text="Draw me a cookie.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="round", filename="Round cookie.jpg") set-background(color="brown") set-image(filename="Round cookie.jpg") set-text(text="Draw a round cookie.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="flat", filename="Flat cookie.jpg") set-background(color="brown") set-image(filename="Flat cookie.jpg") set-text(text="Draw a flat cookie.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="baked", filename="Baked cookie.jpg") set-background(color="brown") set-image(filename="Baked cookie.jpg") set-text(text="Draw a baked cookie.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="white", filename="White cookie.jpg") set-background(color="brown") set-image(filename="White cookie.jpg") set-text(text="Draw a white cookie.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="sugar", filename="Sugar cookie.jpg") set-background(color="brown") set-image(filename="Sugar cookie.jpg") set-text(text="Draw a sugar cookie.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="sugar plums", filename="Plums on a sugar cookie.jpg") set-background(color="brown") set-image(filename="Plums on a sugar cookie.jpg") set-text(text="Draw plums on a sugar cookie.") end-deck() ````