Issue 58  26th February 2024

Keyframer: Empowering Animation Design using Large Language Models

Apple is researching how to use LLMs to use natural language to animate designs. In this paper, Apple researchers describe how they used LLMs to allow users to create CSS animations for static SVG images.

Maybe this will one day be part of Keynote?

Until such a time, come to my session "One more thing - How to create insanely great slides using Keynote", in which I show you how to create amazing presentations using Keynote.

Coming to a conference near you, for example SwiftCraft or SwiftHeroes.

arxiv.org  

Create a Murder Mystery game powered by Gemini AI with SwiftUI

You can use AI for all sorts of tasks - generating or summarising text, creating images and videos, etc. One category of tasks that I find particularly interesting is using LLMs (large language models) as an execution engine for an algorithm that you specify in natural language.

Here is a fun example of a a Murder Mystery game implemented using Gemini and SwiftUI. In his article, Anup D’Souza mentions that the model responses don't match the expected JSON format. I found that this is something you can work around by specifying the exact format you expect.

Here is part of a prompt that I use in a similar game:

  Act as a text adventure game in the style of the Infogrames text advemtures.

  Provide the result in two blocks: the first block MUST ONLY contain the description, formatted as Markdown.
  After the description, insert a newline, and a divider of exaclty FIVE dashes (like this: "-----"), followed by the following JSON structure:

  {
    description: String,
    health: Int,
    location: String,
    inventory: [String]
    commands: [String]
  }

This way of prompting ensures the model returns valid JSON.

anupdsouza.com