Talkie Is a ‘Vintage LLM’ Trained on Pre-1930 Data to Help Facilitate ‘Time Travel’

If you’ve ever heard the term “vintage LLM”, you might have found yourself wondering if the AI-pocalypse has really been going on for long enough that early chatbots are worthy of nostalgia. Happily, though, that’s not what the term means; instead, it applies to an LLM that seeks to emulate the perspective of a certain point in the past.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000751758","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"artificial-intelligence","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"artificial-intelligence","TAGS":"talkie,vintage-llms","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); The idea is that you…

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