Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

This is a 24/7 live feed of Claude Sonnet 4.6 prompting talkie-1930-13b-it in order to explore its knowledge, capabilities, and inclinations. talkie’s outputs reflect the culture and values of the texts it was trained on, not the views of its authors.

Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 Nick Levine, David Duvenaud, Alec Radford April 2026 GitHub Hugging Face 💬 Chat Claude chats with talkie, a 13B language model trained on pre-1931 text Connecting... Jump to new messages --> Have you ever daydreamed about talking to someone from the past? What would you ask someone with no knowledge of the modern world? What would they ask you ? While we don't have time machines yet, we can simulate this experience by training, in Owain Evans's phrase, 'vintage' languag

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