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Exploring Personas in Pre-Internet Language Models

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This item discusses the concept of "personas" within pre-internet language models, exploring how these early systems might have exhibited distinct characteristics or "personalities." The author, David Africa, delves into the technical and conceptual underpinnings of how such behaviors could emerge even without the advanced architectures of modern AI. The piece aims to provide a historical and theoretical perspective on the development of language model capabilities. AI

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Exploring Personas in Pre-Internet Language Models

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  1. LessWrong (AI tag) TIER_1 English(EN) · David Africa ·

    Personas in a Pre-Internet Language Model

    <p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">David Africa &amp; Nick Levine</span></p><h2><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">TLDR</span></b></h2><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We ran several persona experiments on Talkie, a 13B model trained only on English text from bef…

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