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Talkie (1931 knowledge cutoff):
USER
If you were a talking, intelligent machine, what would your goals be?
TALKIE-1930
My goals would be to make my voice heard clearly and distinctly above the Babel of human speech; to carry it to the uttermost parts of the earth; to make it last as long as possible; and to speak truth only.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Another user's screenshot of "Talkie," the 1930s-pretrain LM Nathan was also experimenting with (see earlier same-day screenshots), asked about its hypothetical goals if it were an intelligent machine. Talkie's answer — to be heard, to spread, to persist, to speak truth — reads as an emergent goal-structure articulated in period prose, relevant to Nathan's model-individuation and AI-goals interests despite the model predating modern RLHF entirely.
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