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New 13B language model "Talkie" trained on pre-1931 English text

A new language model named "Talkie" has been released, featuring 13 billion parameters and trained on 260 billion tokens of English text predating 1931. An instruction-tuned version of Talkie incorporates historical etiquette, letters, encyclopedias, and poetry to provide a controlled perspective on temporal training data. AI

IMPACT This model's unique training data could offer new insights into historical language patterns and their impact on AI.

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New 13B language model "Talkie" trained on pre-1931 English text

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    "Talkie" is a 13B language model trained on 260B tokens of pre-1931 English text. Its instruction-tuned variant uses historical etiquette, letters, encyclopedia

    "Talkie" is a 13B language model trained on 260B tokens of pre-1931 English text. Its instruction-tuned variant uses historical etiquette, letters, encyclopedias and poetry, offering a controlled view of temporal training data. # LLM # AI # Talkie https:// talkie-lm.com/introduci…