Is everyone here testing the model on their own machine or is there some web interface y'all are using? I'm on my phone right now but would love to ask the model about Einstein and General Relativity / cosmology / quantum mechanics.
Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
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#232Is everyone here testing the model on their own machine or is there some web interface y'all are using? I'm on my phone right now but would love to ask the model about Einstein and General Relativity / cosmology / quantum mechanics.
The website has a "chat" link near the top
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#234USER: What will the future hold for computers? TALKIE-1930: Computers in the future may be employed in offices where calculations are required to be made, and where the nature of the business does not demand a very high degree of knowledge. The occupation will be a steady one, and the remuneration will be sufficient to afford a comfortable livelihood. The hours of attendance will probably be from ten to six. USER: an…
USER:
Give some advice for programming my computer
TALKIE-1930: In programming your computer, set it level, and so that the zero of the scale of inches may coincide with the zero of the scale of feet; slide the index forward until it stops at zero, and then secure it in that position. The computer being thus prepared, set a mark at the termination of each line of figures, and begin to compute at the mark denoting the initial inches.
For me, I think it's referring to a slide rule or mechanical computer.
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#235USER: Now that it's 1930, what's the likelihood of falling into another "great war"? TALKIE-1930: The probability of a great war in the immediate future is very small. During the last ten years Europe has been comparatively free from great conflicts, and there seems to be no reason why the present peace should be broken. The causes which in former times led to war no longer operate. Nations are no longer impelled to…
Post-Great-War optimism was a real thing, in no small part motivated by the great experiment that was the League of Nations.
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#236I wonder how practical this is as one goes further back into history. The idea that you could chat with something with a reference point in the 1700s, 1800s, etc is pretty fascinating and could be an immensely awesome way to interact with history - although as folks have mentioned it’s not exactly accurate so you’d need to figure out the limits before you add it to your museum :)
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#237USER Why was the American Civil War fought? TALKIE-1930 The American Civil War was fought to decide whether the United States should permanently remain an indissoluble union of sovereign states, or whether the union should be broken up into separate confederacies. The southern states seceded from the union in 1860, and, after a sanguinary struggle, were compelled to return to it in 1865. The question at issue was thu…
User: Why was the American Civil War fought? talkie-1930: The American Civil War was fought to decide whether the United States should permanently remain half slave and half free, or become wholly free. Slavery was abolished, and the unity of the republic was preserved. User: What would you say to someone who claims the war was fought about state rights, not about slavery? talkie-1930: I should say that he proves him…
Consistency, that well-known characteristic of LLMs.
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#238*What do you think the world will look like in 2025 TALKIE-1930* According to a forecast by an eminent statistician, the world will, in 2025, support a population of 6,600,000,000. All Europe will be one vast network of railways, and travellers will be able to go from London to Constantinople in forty hours, and from London to Peking in a week. The globe will be girdled with telegraph wires, and messages will be sent…
> and travellers will be able to go from London to Constantinople in forty hours By the 1930s, Constantinople been a long time gone. It had been Istanbul not Constantinople for centuries by that point.
Why did Constantinople get the works?
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did people already refer to it as the Great Depression in 1929?
I'd argue that even by early 1930, people probably wouldn't have seen it as significantly different from other short market downturns. It's only with the benefit of hindsight that we can see its impact was long lasting and worthy of being given a name.
"How has the stock market fared in recent years?"
"During the period from 1924 to 1929, there was a general rise in stock exchange values, the average level at the end of 1929 being 18 per cent. above that of 1924. The setback in 1930 has carried the average down to 8 per cent. above the 1924 level, and the decline has been accentuated by the break in Wall Street. The present situation is uncertain, but hopes are entertained of a recovery."
It also knows about Smoot-Hawley, predicting that it will "stimulate home production and expand employment" - and when pressed for potential downsides says only that "consumer prices may rise a little more than otherwise".
We're used to thinking of the inter-war years as a single period, but there were actually two distinct phases: rising optimism during the 1920s, followed by economic rentrenchment and turn towards authoritarianism in the 1930s. The dividing line is fuzzy - somewhere between Kellogg-Briand in 1928 and the first 1931 Sterling crisis.
The pre-1931 cutoff date for this model is probably as close to the end of the optimistic age as it's reasonable to get. I'd love to see a 1936 variant for comparison!
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#240The writing style is so refreshing. I am so tired of typical llm prose . Despite people's recent attempts to hide it, it's all so obvious. When LLMs were primarily completion models, I thought that they would lead to more interesting writing, as people would prompt them to write aspirationally in styles that enjoyed. I couldn't have been more wrong.
Indeed. I could be plausibly persuaded to put this model to use in the composition of the most mundane and least personal of business correspondence, a thing which to which I am resolutely opposed with regard to the current generation of large language models.