Written by Talkie, full model · 8 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="red")
Slide 1: the background is now #cc2222.
set-text(text="Televisiors see far-off things.")
Slide 1: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 1 is finished. Now working on slide 2.
find-image(search-term="a city", filename="A city.jpg")
Saved "A city.jpg": Title: Reclining man looming over New York City subway station Abstract/medium: 1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 16 x 11 cm. Montage photograph... (1910)
set-background(color="red")
Slide 2: the background is now #cc2222.
set-image(filename="A city.jpg")
Slide 2: showing "A city.jpg", captioned "A city".
set-text(text="They see a city from a distance.")
Slide 2: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 2 is finished. Now working on slide 3.
find-image(search-term="a procession", filename="A procession.jpg")
Saved "A procession.jpg": Adolph Tidemand & Hans Gude Bridal Procession on the Hardangerfjord Google Art Project (1848)
set-background(color="red")
Slide 3: the background is now #cc2222.
set-image(filename="A procession.jpg")
Slide 3: showing "A procession.jpg", captioned "A procession".
set-text(text="They see a procession marching through the streets.")
Slide 3: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 3 is finished. Now working on slide 4.
find-image(search-term="a church", filename="A church.jpg")
Saved "A church.jpg": Žižkovský vysílač & Kostel Nejsvětějšího srdce Páně (Vinohrady) (8.9.2024)
set-background(color="red")
Slide 4: the background is now #cc2222.
set-image(filename="A church.jpg")
Slide 4: showing "A church.jpg", captioned "A church".
set-text(text="They see the worshippers entering a place of prayer.")
Slide 4: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 4 is finished. Now working on slide 5.
find-image(search-term="a river", filename="A river.jpg")
Saved "A river.jpg": Wilkin River close to its confluence with Makarora River , Otago, New Zealand. (2019-04-03)
set-background(color="red")
Slide 5: the background is now #cc2222.
set-image(filename="A river.jpg")
Slide 5: showing "A river.jpg", captioned "A river".
set-text(text="They watch the river flowing to the sea.")
Slide 5: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 5 is finished. Now working on slide 6.
find-image(search-term="a bridge", filename="A bridge.jpg")
Saved "A bridge.jpg": West Garfield Street Bridge, 1929 (1929)
set-background(color="red")
Slide 6: the background is now #cc2222.
set-image(filename="A bridge.jpg")
Slide 6: showing "A bridge.jpg", captioned "A bridge".
set-text(text="They see the bridge spanning the river.")
Slide 6: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 6 is finished. Now working on slide 7.
find-image(search-term="boats", filename="Boats.jpg")
Saved "Boats.jpg": The Pilot Boat Inn This pub is said to be the home of the original collie Lassie, used as an inspiration for the series of Lassie books, films, and television... (2005-11-18)
set-background(color="red")
Slide 7: the background is now #cc2222.
set-image(filename="Boats.jpg")
Slide 7: showing "Boats.jpg", captioned "Boats".
set-text(text="They watch the boats passing to and fro.")
Slide 7: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 7 is finished. Now working on slide 8.
find-image(search-term="men", filename="Men.jpg")
Saved "Men.jpg": Photo of William Lundigan as Edward McCauley from the television program Men into Space . (1959-09-11)
set-background(color="red")
Slide 8: the background is now #cc2222.
set-image(filename="Men.jpg")
Slide 8: showing "Men.jpg", captioned "Men".
set-text(text="They see the men at work.")
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 (477.7 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 televisions. ```` **Talkie (given, continued below)** ````text set-background(color=" ```` **Talkie's reply** ````text red") set-text(text="Televisiors see far-off things.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="a city", filename="A city.jpg") set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="A city.jpg") set-text(text="They see a city from a distance.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="a procession", filename="A procession.jpg") set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="A procession.jpg") set-text(text="They see a procession marching through the streets.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="a church", filename="A church.jpg") set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="A church.jpg") set-text(text="They see the worshippers entering a place of prayer.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="a river", filename="A river.jpg") set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="A river.jpg") set-text(text="They watch the river flowing to the sea.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="a bridge", filename="A bridge.jpg") set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="A bridge.jpg") set-text(text="They see the bridge spanning the river.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="boats", filename="Boats.jpg") set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Boats.jpg") set-text(text="They watch the boats passing to and fro.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="men", filename="Men.jpg") set-background(color="red") set-image(filename="Men.jpg") set-text(text="They see the men at work.") end-deck() ````