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Summary

  • New Slidev deck, "AI Fundamentals for Beginners," in English and French, aimed at a general (non-technical) audience
  • Three live demos grounded in real sources: explaining a medicine label, translating a real message, and drafting a letter to a Swiss commune

Test plan

  • pnpm --filter ai-for-beginners dev:en — click through the English deck, check slides 4-6 and 12 render as expected
  • pnpm --filter ai-for-beginners dev:fr — click through the French deck, same slides
  • Confirm demo prompts copy cleanly via the CopyBlock button

Adds the ai-for-beginners Slidev talk (bilingual en/fr) with placeholder
slides matching the approved content outline, and registers it in the
workspace, root scripts, README, landing page, and CI/deploy build
matrices.
Fills in the placeholder slides with the content outlined in the
approved plan: the opening question, the pattern-recognition analogy,
the three demos (medicine label, French/German translation, admin
letter) each split into a setup and findings slide, the failure modes
and scam/job-loss warnings, everyday uses, and the closing takeaways.
Replaces the leaf-disease analogy on slide 4 with a fruit-ripeness one,
adds concrete image/voice AI examples to slide 5, and grounds the three
live demos in real material: an official Dafalgan patient leaflet
excerpt from compendium.ch, a real sentence from Sion's residents'
registration office site, and an actual letter-drafting prompt for
requesting a proof of residence from that same office.
Presenting live means retyping the medicine leaflet excerpt, the
official Sion sentence, and the letter prompt is impractical. Adds a
CopyBlock component that copies its slot content to the clipboard, and
wraps the three demo blockquotes with it.
The copy button overlapped blockquote text because nothing reserved
space for it. Switches to an icon-only button (copy/checkmark SVGs,
no text so it doesn't need translating) and adds right padding to the
content so it no longer overflows.

Also reworks the demo content per feedback: demo 1 and demo 3 are now
complete prompts (context plus instruction) in one copyable block
instead of split across prose and a bare excerpt, demo 2 swaps the
administrative sentence (translating it had no real motivation) for a
message from a Haut-Valais relative, and demo 3 uses the presenter's
actual name and a concrete date instead of placeholders, which also
fixes MDC swallowing the literal "[date]" square brackets.
Les Haudères is a village in the commune of Évolène, not Sion, so the
letter now addresses Évolène's administration, and names the actual
bank (Banque Cantonale du Valais) instead of a generic placeholder.
Slide 5 claimed "two things" while listing three AI categories, and
the French heading on slide 4 talked about "thousands of examples"
instead of matching the English "patterns" framing used consistently
elsewhere in the deck. Also restores the "over-the-counter" detail
dropped from the French Demo 1 slide, and hyphenates a few compound
adjectives in English.
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xballoy merged commit 1ae7546 into main Aug 17, 2026
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