On Sunday, January 12, 2025, 10:06 AM, Diane Silver via Contra Callers <contracallers@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.DianeOn Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM Rick Mohr via Contra Callers <contracallers@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
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My Instructions to ChatGPT
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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
Figures:
A1 (8) Neighbor allemande right 1 & 3/4
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
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)
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Output from ChatGPT
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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 lineTrip 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, swingFluidity (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
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