Slide about combining a typewriter and a telephone to design a new
Written by Talkie, full model · 6 slides · 26 Oct 2026
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You asked“Slide about combining a typewriter and a telephone to design a new communication technology.”
Talkie was asked“Make a slide deck about Slide about combining a typewriter and a telephone to design a new.”
Talkie's reply was started with
set-background(color=" (the worked example's first words, so that it writes a deck rather than an answer)ModelFull model
Seed1930
Temperature0.35
Writing took15 min 43 s
Valid commands28 of 28
Ended itselfYes, with end-deck()
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set-background(color="black")Slide 1: the background is now #000000. -
set-text(text="A typewriter and a telephone have been combined to produce a new instrument, which will both write and speak.")Slide 1: text added. -
next-slide()Slide 1 is finished. Now working on slide 2. -
find-image(search-term="typewriter and telephone", filename="Typewriter and telephone.jpg")Saved "Typewriter and telephone.jpg": PH Coll 516.3215 The Saginaw Timber Company incorporated on March 18, 1908 and organized in 1909. The company was to be capitalized at $100,000. The organizers... (1919) -
set-background(color="black")Slide 2: the background is now #000000. -
set-image(filename="Typewriter and telephone.jpg")Slide 2: showing "Typewriter and telephone.jpg", captioned "Typewriter and telephone". -
set-text(text="The sounds produced by the new instrument can be recorded and can be read afterwards.")Slide 2: text added. -
next-slide()Slide 2 is finished. Now working on slide 3. -
find-image(search-term="phonograph", filename="Phonograph.jpg")Saved "Phonograph.jpg": Thomas Edison and his early phonograph. Cropped from U.S.A. Library of Congress copy. Edited Version. Dust removed by Arad . (circa 1877 (probably 18 April 1878, base) -
set-background(color="black")Slide 3: the background is now #000000. -
set-image(filename="Phonograph.jpg")Slide 3: showing "Phonograph.jpg", captioned "Phonograph". -
set-text(text="And the sounds can be preserved for future generations to hear.")Slide 3: text added. -
next-slide()Slide 3 is finished. Now working on slide 4. -
find-image(search-term="record", filename="Record.jpg")Saved "Record.jpg": Historical record label of Sudanese song by Abdel Karim Karouma (1920-01-01) -
set-background(color="black")Slide 4: the background is now #000000. -
set-image(filename="Record.jpg")Slide 4: showing "Record.jpg", captioned "Record". -
set-text(text="The new instrument has records both of speech and song.")Slide 4: text added. -
next-slide()Slide 4 is finished. Now working on slide 5. -
find-image(search-term="speech", filename="Speech.jpg")Saved "Speech.jpg": A rendered speech of Arikara head chief White Shield in 1864, Like-a-Fishhook Village (Fort Berthold), North Dakota, to the President of the United States.... (1865) -
set-background(color="black")Slide 5: the background is now #000000. -
set-image(filename="Speech.jpg")Slide 5: showing "Speech.jpg", captioned "Speech". -
set-text(text="And it can speak to us at any time.")Slide 5: text added. -
next-slide()Slide 5 is finished. Now working on slide 6. -
find-image(search-term="song", filename="Song.jpg")Saved "Song.jpg": A Pawnee song to remember the killing of Cheyenne chief Touching Cloud during the summer, 1852. The chief attacked the Pawnees wearing a sort of armor hidden... (1929-01-01) -
set-background(color="black")Slide 6: the background is now #000000. -
set-image(filename="Song.jpg")Slide 6: showing "Song.jpg", captioned "Song". -
set-text(text="And sing to us the songs of all times and places.")Slide 6: text added. -
end-deck()The deck is finished (6 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.
- Typewriter and telephone.jpg Man seated in office, showing telephones, typewriter, and October 1919 calendar from The Garlock Packing Company, Saginaw Timber (KINSEY 545).jpeg Wikimedia Commons · Clark Kinsey · 1919 · Public domain
- Phonograph.jpg Edison and phonograph edit2.jpg Wikimedia Commons · Levin C. Handy (per http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.04326 ) · circa 1877 (probably 18 April 1878, based on the extremely similar photo [1] ) · Public domain
- Record.jpg Msawa nurkum Msawa nurkum Karouma record label.jpg Wikimedia Commons · unknown author · 1920-01-01 · Public domain
- Speech.jpg Speech of Arikara chief White Shield, 1864.jpg Wikimedia Commons · U.S. Government · 1865 · Public domain
- Song.jpg Pawnee song concerning Cheyenne Touching Cloud (Iron Shirt).png Wikimedia Commons · Frances Densmore. · 1929-01-01 · Public domain
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# Transcript: 1 call to Talkie ## Call 1: pytorch, max_tokens 1600, temperature 0.35, seed 1930 (943.5 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 Slide about combining a typewriter and a telephone to design a new. ```` **Talkie (given, continued below)** ````text set-background(color=" ```` **Talkie's reply** ````text black") set-text(text="A typewriter and a telephone have been combined to produce a new instrument, which will both write and speak.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="typewriter and telephone", filename="Typewriter and telephone.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Typewriter and telephone.jpg") set-text(text="The sounds produced by the new instrument can be recorded and can be read afterwards.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="phonograph", filename="Phonograph.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Phonograph.jpg") set-text(text="And the sounds can be preserved for future generations to hear.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="record", filename="Record.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Record.jpg") set-text(text="The new instrument has records both of speech and song.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="speech", filename="Speech.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Speech.jpg") set-text(text="And it can speak to us at any time.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="song", filename="Song.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Song.jpg") set-text(text="And sing to us the songs of all times and places.") end-deck() ````