I figured I'd spend a day faffing about with A.I. Possibilities.
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Story so far : I recently bought a MacMini, and set it up as mostly an A.I. box, with a few choice apps that can help generate things for the A.I. Corner of the blog.
The Greenie pic of the day has been generated by "ALBox" since then, with Draw Things running the Flux Schnell engine, and the Cartoon Derek (Greenie) LoRA model on top.
The silly little comedy sketch under each image is half being done by ALBox, but also still half being done by Claude.ai, because ... ALBox has been a bit rubbish at it. It keeps making Greenie kinda evil, if I'm honest. He doesn't come across as evil, does he?
So, yesterday I tried downloading a few different models, and played "Compare the output!" with them.
I *think* I might be sticking with the Google/Gemma-3-12b model. As far as the feel/vibe of Codas goes, it seems to have got it down to an approximately decent style. I'd still need to do rewrites, but it looks like it might be better than the previous Llama model that I was using.
Audio?
Which takes me on to the thought of Audio. I wondered yesterday if it might be even vaguely possible to create an Audio episode of Codas.
I started by trying to get something, anything, installed onto ALBox that might be able to generate decent text to speech, but the audio quality was .. quite frankly, it was rubbish.
Then I remembered that Suno can occasionally be used for "Not songs", and I wondered how well that might do a spoken episode of Codas.
I fed in a script from a few days ago, which was a scene of just Dave and Greenie chatting to each other, and I gave it a vague description in the "Style" box.
"Spoken word, sitcom scene. Dave is a 40 something british male, northwest england, with a bolton accent. Green is a 60 year old british male with a northern accent."
Dave: [typing] So if we take yesterday's manual receipts...
Green: Which we wouldn't have needed if someone hadn't tried to update all the tills at once.
Dave: The molecular structure needed realignment!
Green: Of the till?
Dave: Look, according to this, we sold seventy-three ScrunchyCakes.
Green: At seventy five pence, each.
Dave: Yeah.
Green: And seventy five pence isn't going to cover it, is it, Dave?
Dave: But wait until you see my spreadsheet!
Green: The numbers might be aligned, but they're probably not pretty.
Dave: It's got conditional formatting.
Green: Are the cells all red?
Dave: They glow like a wonderful sunset.
Green: Dave, red is bad. You know that, right?
Dave: Oooh, Pivot tables.
Green: [shuffling receipts] Perhaps we should look into a cheaper butcher. These sausages are almost twice the price of a ScrunchCakes, alone.
Dave: I could make a graph...
Green: Remember when you used to make actual money from programming?
Dave: That's been a long time, Greenie.
Green: Before it all fell apart.
Dave: [laughing] Those were the days, eh?
Green: Focus, Dave.
Dave: Right, right. Business stuff.
Green: Why is there a monthly Floppy Disk allowance?
Dave: That's for the monthly newsletter I'm going to set up.
Green: I thought you were making a website?
Dave: This will be for preservation.
[Olivia and Paul are fiddling with wires connected to the ScrunchCake Security Sentinel. Dave paces anxiously, whilst Greenie observes.]
Green: It’s firing at random again, isn't it? Absolutely unacceptable! We can’t have ScrunchCakes pelting customers. It'd be a lawsuit waiting to happen!
Dave: They might enjoy the free ScrunchCakes.
Olivia: (adjusting a dial) We’ve recalibrated the trajectory sensors, Dave. It should be more accurate now.
Green: (worried) MORE accurate?
Paul: (checking a readout) The calibration seems stable, but the targeting algorithm is still a little bit quirky if it catches anything cartoonish.
[A ScrunchCake launches across the room, narrowly missing Mrs. Thompson who is attempting to balance a stack of boxes.]
Mrs. Thompson: (exasperated) David!
Dave: It wasn't me. I'm nowhere near it.
Green: I honestly think we should get rid of this.
Dave: (waving his hand dismissively) It's perfectly safe! Just needs a little fine-tuning. It's all about the algorithms. Predictive ScrunchCake dispersal!
Green: More like random ScrunchCake chaos.
Dave: Greenie! Don’t be so negative! This is cutting-edge security technology! Think about it. Proactive defense system against rogue ScrunchCakes.
Olivia: Is there anything in the manual about calibrating the cake consistency!
Dave: There isn't a manual. I made it.
Paul: Oh good lord, we're all gonna die.
[Another ScrunchCake launches, hitting a display of retro arcade games.]
Paul: (ducking) Maybe we should just switch it off?
Dave: (panicking) No! But how else will we protect the shop merchandise from evil thieves?
Green: Right now I'm more worried about protecting the shop merchandise from the evil ScrunchCake launcher!
[Brian walks in, carrying a tray of Nutmeg Mania ScrunchCakes.]
Brian: Everything alright here? Sounds like a party.
Dave: (gesturing wildly) We’re trying to stabilize the Sentinel! It's gone rogue again!
Brian: (looking up at the device) Right. Bye then. (heads back into the kitchen)
Dave: (to Olivia and Paul) Okay, new plan. Let’s try reversing the polarity!
Olivia: Dave, that's not a real thing!
Dave: (grinning) It is now!
[As Dave starts fiddling with the wires, another ScrunchCake launches across the room. Everyone ducks.]
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