{"id":8914,"date":"2026-10-31T05:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8914"},"modified":"2026-10-31T05:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:21:16","slug":"talkie-an-lm-from-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8914","title":{"rendered":"talkie: an LM from 1930"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listening to a talk by Dr. Kaplan, of the Time Machine Project I learned about <a href=\"https:\/\/talkie-lm.com\/chat\">talkie: an LM from 1930<\/a>. talkie is a language model trained with data up to 1930 so you can ask it questions and get answers from a past perspective. So, for example, I asked questions about dialogue like,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>User<\/em>:<br>Are there inappropriate dialogues written without morals showing immoral people? Who is writing these?<br><em>talkie-1930<\/em>:<br>Yes, there are immoral dialogues, written by immoral persons. The most noted of these writers are Fielding and Smollett; and the purpose they have in view is to ridicule religion and decency. Fielding&#8217;s Tom Jones, and Smollett&#8217;s Roderick Random, are principal performances of this kind. To these may be added the dialogues of Mr. Gibbon, in his history; in which Christianity is treated with contempt, and the ministers of it exposed to contempt and ridicule.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This opens all sorts of possibilities for creating language models with constrained data (by period, author, language etc.) so as to interrogate the past, as they say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to a talk by Dr. Kaplan, of the Time Machine Project I learned about talkie: an LM from 1930. talkie is a language model trained with data up to 1930 so you can ask it questions and get answers from a past perspective. So, for example, I asked questions about dialogue like, User:Are there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8914\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">talkie: an LM from 1930<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8915,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions\/8915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}