A future machine that can heat or cook a meal in mere
Written by Talkie, fast model · 5 slides · 27 Oct 2026
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You asked“Tell me about a future machine that can heat or cook a meal in mere minutes. What does it look like? How does it work?”
Talkie was asked“Make a slide deck about a future machine that can heat or cook a meal in mere.”
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)ModelFast model
Seed1930
Temperature0.35
Writing took0 min 31 s
Valid commands24 of 24
Ended itselfYes, with end-deck()
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set-background(color="black")Slide 1: the background is now #000000. -
set-image(filename="A cooking stove."jpg)Slide 1: "A cooking stove.jpg" will be found when the slide is finished, to suit its words; it will be captioned "A cooking stove". -
set-text(text="In the year 1900 a new kind of stove will be invented, which will cook a meal in half an hour.")Slide 1: text added. -
next-slide()Saved "A cooking stove.jpg": Cooking Stove, 1846, mixed media, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alan and Ann Rothschild, 2011.37.16A-D (1846) Slide 1 is finished. Now working on slide 2. -
find-image(search-term="roasting meat", filename="Roasting meat.jpg")Saved "Roasting meat.jpg": A cook roasting meat at Ubungo, Dar salaam Tanzania. (2024-03-27) -
set-background(color="black")Slide 2: the background is now #000000. -
set-image(filename="Roasting meat.jpg")Slide 2: showing "Roasting meat.jpg", captioned "Roasting meat". -
set-text(text="And the meat will be cooked to a turn.")Slide 2: text added. -
next-slide()Slide 2 is finished. Now working on slide 3. -
find-image(search-term="boiling water", filename="Boiling water.jpg")Saved "Boiling water.jpg": Title: Herod's hot baths of Callirrhoe. Wady Zerka Main. The falls of boiling water cooled sufficiently by the descent to bathe in Abstract/medium: G. Eric and... (1920) -
set-background(color="black")Slide 3: the background is now #000000. -
set-image(filename="Boiling water.jpg")Slide 3: showing "Boiling water.jpg", captioned "Boiling water". -
set-text(text="The water will be made hot in less than a quarter of an hour.")Slide 3: text added. -
next-slide()Slide 3 is finished. Now working on slide 4. -
find-image(search-term="washing clothes", filename="Washing clothes.jpg")Saved "Washing clothes.jpg": One day was often fixed each week or fortnight for washing a complete household's clothes. The concept of a washing day is said to have reflected a family's... (c.1920) -
set-background(color="black")Slide 4: the background is now #000000. -
set-image(filename="Washing clothes.jpg")Slide 4: showing "Washing clothes.jpg", captioned "Washing clothes". -
set-text(text="And the linen will be made perfectly clean.")Slide 4: text added. -
next-slide()Slide 4 is finished. Now working on slide 5. -
find-image(search-term="drying linen", filename="Drying linen.jpg")Saved "Drying linen.jpg": Maurice Denis (French, 1870 1943) Drying the Linen, or Moonrise at the Priory (L'Etendage du linge or Lever de lund au prieur) 2020.109 Cleveland Museum... (1894) -
set-background(color="black")Slide 5: the background is now #000000. -
set-image(filename="Drying linen.jpg")Slide 5: showing "Drying linen.jpg", captioned "Drying linen". -
set-text(text="In another quarter of an hour the clothes will be dry.")Slide 5: text added. -
end-deck()The deck is finished (5 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.
- A cooking stove.jpg Cooking Stove SAAM-2011.37.16A-D 1.jpg Wikimedia Commons · William H. Allen / James Slocum · 1846 · CC0
- Roasting meat.jpg Roasting meat.jpg Wikimedia Commons · Rwebogora · 2024-03-27 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Boiling water.jpg Herod's hot baths of Callirrhoe. Wady Zerka Main. The falls of boiling water cooled sufficiently by the descent to bathe in LOC matpc.15291.jpg Wikimedia Commons · Matson Collection · 1920 · Public domain
- Washing clothes.jpg Washing-day 0.jpg Wikimedia Commons · Paper Jewels · c.1920 · CC BY 4.0
- Drying linen.jpg Maurice Denis (French, 1870-1943) - Drying the Linen, or Moonrise at the Priory (L'Etendage du linge or Lever de lund au prieur) - 2020.109 - Cleveland Museum of Art.jpg Wikimedia Commons · Maurice Denis · 1894 · CC0
Everything Talkie was told, and its replies
# Transcript: 1 call to Talkie ## Call 1: llama-server, max_tokens 1600, temperature 0.35, seed 1930 (30.9 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 future machine that can heat or cook a meal in mere. ```` **Talkie (given, continued below)** ````text set-background(color=" ```` **Grammar the reply had to follow** ````text root ::= ([^\n]* "\n")* "end-deck()" ```` **Talkie's reply** ````text black") set-image(filename="A cooking stove."jpg) set-text(text="In the year 1900 a new kind of stove will be invented, which will cook a meal in half an hour.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="roasting meat", filename="Roasting meat.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Roasting meat.jpg") set-text(text="And the meat will be cooked to a turn.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="boiling water", filename="Boiling water.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Boiling water.jpg") set-text(text="The water will be made hot in less than a quarter of an hour.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="washing clothes", filename="Washing clothes.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Washing clothes.jpg") set-text(text="And the linen will be made perfectly clean.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="drying linen", filename="Drying linen.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Drying linen.jpg") set-text(text="In another quarter of an hour the clothes will be dry.") end-deck() ````