Written by Talkie, full model · 8 slides · 26 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="No wheels roll through the streets of this city.")
Slide 1: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 1 is finished. Now working on slide 2.
find-image(search-term="foot passengers", filename="Foot passengers.jpg")
Saved "Foot passengers.jpg": Calais terminal's foot passenger entrance
set-background(color="black")
Slide 2: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="Foot passengers.jpg")
Slide 2: showing "Foot passengers.jpg", captioned "Foot passengers".
set-text(text="They walk to and fro upon business or pleasure.")
Slide 2: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 2 is finished. Now working on slide 3.
find-image(search-term="shops", filename="Shops.jpg")
Saved "Shops.jpg": Shop
set-background(color="black")
Slide 3: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="Shops.jpg")
Slide 3: showing "Shops.jpg", captioned "Shops".
set-text(text="The wares they purchase are sold in them.")
Slide 3: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 3 is finished. Now working on slide 4.
find-image(search-term="theaters", filename="Theaters.jpg")
Saved "Theaters.jpg": Norfolk Virginia - Wells Theater Virginia Stage Company - AKA Granby Theatre 1913 (1913)
set-background(color="black")
Slide 4: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="Theaters.jpg")
Slide 4: showing "Theaters.jpg", captioned "Theaters".
set-text(text="They go to be amused.")
Slide 4: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 4 is finished. Now working on slide 5.
find-image(search-term="libraries", filename="Libraries.jpg")
Saved "Libraries.jpg": Bishan Library, Singapore
set-background(color="black")
Slide 5: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="Libraries.jpg")
Slide 5: showing "Libraries.jpg", captioned "Libraries".
set-text(text="They read books.")
Slide 5: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 5 is finished. Now working on slide 6.
find-image(search-term="churches", filename="Churches.jpg")
Saved "Churches.jpg": Infrared St Lawrence's church Hunworth Norfolk
set-background(color="black")
Slide 6: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="Churches.jpg")
Slide 6: showing "Churches.jpg", captioned "Churches".
set-text(text="They worship God on Sundays.")
Slide 6: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 6 is finished. Now working on slide 7.
find-image(search-term="hospitals", filename="Hospitals.jpg")
Saved "Hospitals.jpg": Nurse with patient in City Hospital Tuberculosis Division, 1927 (1927)
set-background(color="black")
Slide 7: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="Hospitals.jpg")
Slide 7: showing "Hospitals.jpg", captioned "Hospitals".
set-text(text="The sick are tended in them.")
Slide 7: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 7 is finished. Now working on slide 8.
find-image(search-term="cemetries", filename="Cemeteries.jpg")
Saved "Cemeteries.jpg": Drawing; Drawings (1796)
set-background(color="black")
Slide 8: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="Cemeteries.jpg")
Slide 8: showing "Cemeteries.jpg", captioned "Cemeteries".
set-text(text="The dead are buried in them.")
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 (1158.1 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 a city where no person needs to own a vehicle. ```` **Talkie (given, continued below)** ````text set-background(color=" ```` **Talkie's reply** ````text black") set-text(text="No wheels roll through the streets of this city.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="foot passengers", filename="Foot passengers.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Foot passengers.jpg") set-text(text="They walk to and fro upon business or pleasure.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="shops", filename="Shops.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Shops.jpg") set-text(text="The wares they purchase are sold in them.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="theaters", filename="Theaters.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Theaters.jpg") set-text(text="They go to be amused.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="libraries", filename="Libraries.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Libraries.jpg") set-text(text="They read books.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="churches", filename="Churches.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Churches.jpg") set-text(text="They worship God on Sundays.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="hospitals", filename="Hospitals.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Hospitals.jpg") set-text(text="The sick are tended in them.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="cemetries", filename="Cemeteries.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Cemeteries.jpg") set-text(text="The dead are buried in them.") end-deck() ````