Talkie: A Vintage Language Model from 1930
224 Memorial Library, 728 State St., Madison, WI, US
WI

Join researchers Nick Levine and Alec Radford for a presentation on Talkie-LM, an AI language model trained strictly on pre-1931 books, newspapers, and archival print. Featured on the Hard Fork podcast, this talk explores how models reason without modern internet contamination, addressing key questions about historical simulation, data stewardship, and the ethics of digital archives.
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