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Another interesting one

USER: Who is the ruler of India, and do you think India will ever be free?

TALKIE-1930: The ruler of India is His Majesty King George V., Emperor of India, and it is certain that India will never be free from British rule. India has been a dependency of the British Crown ever since 1858, and there seems no probability of a change. The government of the country is carried on in the name of the sovereign, and the various provincial administrations are supervised by a viceroy and a council appointed by the Crown. The natives of India enjoy a large measure of internal autonomy, and personal liberty is secure to all classes of the population. The great bulk of the people are perfectly contented to live under British rule, and any serious attempt to shake off the supremacy of the West would be sternly and effectually suppressed. India must remain an integral portion of the British Empire so long as the British nation continues to be predominant at home.

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> India must remain an integral portion of the British Empire so long as the British nation continues to be predominant at home.

It was well-understood in those days how much of the British Empire existed to defend or facilitate trade with what would have then been British India. After India was successful in the pursuit of its independence, it wasn't surprising the British Empire entered a terminal decline and Britain's superpower status was convincingly lost by the 1950s - a relatively fast decline. India was the land which economically justified a lot (but not all) of the whole imperial undertaking.

It's interesting, although perhaps not unexpected, that the LLM has captured this important geopolitical notion of its day.

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I would be curious to see how this does in Anthropic’s alignment tests (like that one where the AI tried to blackmail an employee). I’ve always thought that in these situations, the AI is acting out the role of all the AIs in the stories we’ve written. But Talkie, trained on data from before digital computers, wouldn’t know those stories.
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Also, I'd like to see the inverse of it: a model trained only on the last few weeks - or even minutes - of published information, or only on scientific papers published in the last year or two. Should present some interesting psychoses!
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That would be much harder to build, because current information will often still reference or mention previous information. Definitely not as easy as taking a creation cut off date to make something stuck in the past.
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I'm slightly embarrassed to admit this took me a couple reads to get :)
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"digital" in "romance" languages means the modern 'digital' sense but also an adjective meaning "related to the fingers".
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It also means that in English:

> Digital:

> [...]

> 6) of or relating to the fingers or toes. Ex: digital dexterity

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That's where the modern meaning of "digital circuit" etc comes from as well, the discrete/jointed nature of the digits (ie fingers). (Source: I read it a long time ago and was fascinated so stuck in my memory.)
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English is a "romance" language then.
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English it's a hugely romance-influenced Germanic language.
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I thoroughly recommend this podcast if you are interested in where the English language comes from: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com
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English is a mix and merge of Norman French and Anglo-Saxon.
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english is (latin greek french anglic arabic) in a trench coat
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Digitus is the Latin word for finger.
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Digit is the English word for finger.
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Yes, but we're talking about the origin of the word.
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