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		ghurtado 21 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-19... This might just be the closest we get to a time machine for some time. Or maybe ever. Every "King Arthur travels to the year 2000" kinda script is now something that writes itself. > Imagine having a conversation with someone genuinely from the period, Imagine not just someone, but Aristotle or Leonardo or Kant!

RobotToaster 11 hours ago [–]

I imagine King Arthur would say something like: Hwæt spricst þu be?

yorwba 7 hours ago | [–]

Wrong language. The Arthur of legend is a Celtic-speaking Briton fighting against the Germanic-speaking invaders. Old English developed from the language of his enemies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_language_decline_in_Eng...

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