What if a language model had never heard of the internet, smartphones, or even World War II? That’s not a hypothetical — it’s exactly what a team of researchers led by Nick Levine, David Duvenaud, and Alec Radford has built. They call it talkie, and it may be the most historically disciplined large language model […] The post Meet Talkie-1930: A 13B Open-Weight LLM Trained on Pre-1931 English Text for Historical Reasoning and Generalization Research appeared first on MarkTechPost.