Prompt Engineering
Update: Since I wrote this post, I've been thinking through the ethical implications of AI-generated art. Right now, I'm training models on digital art I created myself and incorporating their generations into this blog. I'm not an artist, although I dabble in digital drawing
Prompt Engineering
Perhaps the Holy Grail of generative AI is to produce real, useful content. Not Elizabethan poetry or surrealist artwork, but helpful communications that clearly explain how to perform a task, fix a problem, or finish a project. In my day job, one time-consuming task I'd love to offload
AI Ethics
When interacting with chatbots, especially for technical or coding tasks, I generally provide concise instruction like, "Write a Python script to turn a PDF into an audio file." I don't wish the GPT good morning or inquire about its weekend before making a request, as I
ChatGPT Plus
As you may recall from several previous posts, I've been working on creating audio recordings of beginner Mandarin lessons for English speakers using text-to-speech (TTS) technology. I used OpenAI's TTS model, which handles both English and Mandarin well, and also tried ElevenLabs, which offers many voice
Work in Progress
It was a good morning. The sun was peeking over the horizon. I had a steaming mug of coffee, and my MacOS scripting-and-voiceover app was behaving as expected. I'd even added voices from the ElevenLabs text-to-speech (TTS) model by adapting this Swift package. While it doesn't
Prompt Engineering
My eleven-year-old daughter is hard-core into spelling and has ambitious to qualify for the Scripps National Spelling Bee. So far, she's won multiple school bees and made it to second place in her most recent County bee. To prepare, she's been using Scripps' Word Club
Work in Progress
Remember my quest to create Mandarin lessons for beginners and record them with AI? It continues. For those of you who haven't read the previous blog, here is a quick recap. I wanted to use a large language model (GPT) to generate copy for the lessons themselves, incorporate
One human experiments with AI
I'm still tinkering with my voiceover scripting and recording app. I've made some decent progress, and now I can easily choose from all of OpenAi's six voices when playing audio or saving it an MP3 file. Of course, I got this to work the
After some long conversations with my Mandarin for Beginners GPT, I decided that allowing it to improvise lessons and deliver them through voice chat was not the best approach. Users could easily burn through their 40 messages per three hours just with some basic pronunciation and conversation practice. I know
I love the idea of learning and speaking other languages, but my enthusiasm exceeds my ability. While I can manage small talk in French and Spanish, my attempt to learn Mandarin ended with dropping the class to preserve my GPA. So, of course, I am trying to build an infinitely
I know I should send more thank you notes, perhaps even a lot more thank you notes, but I'm not good at warm and engaging prose. I end up staring at the screen, worried that my email missives will seem too cold, awkward, or lame. But ChatGPT is
I am fairly new to SwiftUI and often make use of packages I find on GitHub. But understanding how these packages work and how best to use them can be rather time-consuming. In fact, the other day I was struggling to integrate a SwiftUI app with an OpenAI Assistant. Fortunately,
Update: Since I wrote this post, I've been thinking about the ethical implications of AI-generated art. Right now, I'm training models on digital art I created myself and incorporating their generations into this blog. Is there a difference between photorealism and photos? This is what DALL-E
Update: Since I wrote this post, I've been thinking about the ethical implications of AI-generated art. Right now, I'm training models on digital art I created myself and incorporating their generations into this blog. Since this blog will chronicle my ongoing experiments with and research into