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1930S-TRAINED AI IMAGINES 2026 AS STEAMSHIP ERA
Researchers trained a 13-billion-parameter language model on texts written only before 1931. The resulting AI, called Talkie, predicts a 2026 world of steamships, railroads, and penny novels—while doubting a second world war will occur.
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"Talkie" is a 13B-parameter language model trained only on texts written before 1931. It doubts a second world war will…