[Callers] Re: Unifying contra dance formats with AI

That’s amazing and can’t wait to play with it. I have a similar situatiion Laurie Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, January 12, 2025, 10:06 AM, Diane Silver via Contra Callers <contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: That's pretty amazing. I am generally resisting AI with every fiber in my being, but this looks pretty benign. Thanks for sharing.  Diane On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM Rick Mohr via Contra Callers <contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: AI is invading our lives, but can sometimes be useful — for example, ChatGPT is pretty good at reformatting contra dances! In Philly we have mostly multi-caller evenings, where the coordinator gets dance submissions from many callers (in many formats), creates a program, and sends out the result. Sometimes the program looks like a fruit salad of formats, but (OCD?) I like everything to be concise and uniform. See example below, where ChatGPT unifies dances in 4 formats — Callers Box, one posted here, my website, and Bob Isaacs’ format. It took a few tries to refine the instructions (and I only tried this one output format), but in the end it’s a pretty amazing result from minimal instructions in plain English. Rick ========================= My Instructions to ChatGPT ========================= Please reformat the contra dances below as follows: Format dance headers as e.g. “Title (Author) Formation” If formation is omitted, use “Duple Improper”  Format part names as e.g. “A1:  ”. Eliminate beat counts for figures (like “8”). Put a part’s figures on one line, separated by commas, no period or spaces at the end. And this is important — format as plain text, do not format as markdown. Centrifugal Hey by Gene Hubert Permission: full   License: CC-BY-NC | FormationBase: | Duple Minor - Improper | | Progression: | Single | Figures: | A1 | (8) Neighbor allemande right 1 & 3/4 (8) Men allemande left 1 & 1/2 | | A2 | (16) Hey (PR;WL;NR;ML;PR;WL;NR;ML) | | B1 | (16) Partner swing | | B2 | (8) Right and left through with partner (6) Circle left 3/4 (2) Pass through along (NR) | Stars are Aligned by Lisa Sieverts BECKET, CCW - LH Star - RH Star - P Do Si Do (on side) - P Swing - Whole Set Oval Left - Whole set Oval Right - F&B - LH Star, on to the next, partners moving along the line Trip to Trillium                 Bob Isaacs                  Becket-L   A1.      8          Circle L ¾             8          w/Partner weave the line past two                                          (1)   A2.      8          w/N3 square through three             8          N2 swing   B1.      8          Robins chain to partner             8          ½ hey (RR, N2L, LR, -)   B2.      4,12     Partner balance, swing Fluidity By Rick Mohr; September 2017 Contra, BecketCaller's Box Level: Easy/Intermediate | A1: | 3/4 Hey (larks pass left shoulders to start) (12) Robins allemande left (4) | | A2: | Gypsy and swing neighbor (16) | | B1: | Right and left through (8) Circle right (8) | | B2: | (With next couple) Circle left 3/4 (6) Swing partner (10) | ========================= Output from ChatGPT ========================= Centrifugal Hey (Gene Hubert) Duple Improper A1: Neighbor allemande right 1 & 3/4, men allemande left 1 & 1/2 A2: Hey (PR, WL, NR, ML, PR, WL, NR, ML) B1: Partner swing B2: Right and left through with partner, circle left 3/4, pass through along (NR) Stars are Aligned (Lisa Sieverts) Becket CCW A1: Left-hand star, right-hand star A2: Partner do-si-do, partner swing B1: Whole set oval left, whole set oval right B2: Forward and back, left-hand star on to the next, partners moving along the line Trip to Trillium (Bob Isaacs) Becket Left A1: Circle left 3/4, with partner weave the line past two A2: With N3 square through three, N2 swing B1: Robins chain to partner, half hey (RR, N2L, LR) B2: Partner balance, swing Fluidity (Rick Mohr; September 2017) Becket A1: Three-quarter hey (larks pass left shoulders to start), robins allemande left A2: Gypsy and swing neighbor B1: Right and left through, circle right B2: With next couple circle left 3/4, swing partner _______________________________________________ Contra Callers mailing list -- contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net To unsubscribe send an email to contracallers-leave(a)lists.sharedweight.net _______________________________________________ Contra Callers mailing list -- contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net To unsubscribe send an email to contracallers-leave(a)lists.sharedweight.net _______________________________________________ Contra Callers mailing list -- contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net To unsubscribe send an email to contracallers-leave(a)lists.sharedweight.net