Handwritten 'language model' with human-written replies hits 500+ downloads
Helpful-Series132 · reddit · 2026-09-03
WVY is a "handwritten language model": every response was written by a single human to show the illusion of intelligence isn't tied to parameter count. The first 43M-parameter version got 500+ downloads on Hugging Face; a smaller research model is in the works with an intentionally tiny dataset.
- Unlike massive pretraining that hopes meaning emerges, this project deliberately sculpts every possible reply by hand
- Capabilities: explaining token prediction, admitting it doesn't understand inputs, short chats; can write a loop counting to 10 and say it can't understand your code
- Open source coming soon via StarpowerTechnology on Hugging Face
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