A gag gift for programmers that is also a real language model.
It is a joke, and it actually runs. brAIAIn is a word-level trigram model that retrains on a schedule, ships a new version for every sentence someone pays for, and scores 0.0% on GSM8K. Your developer gets to push one sentence into it.
Ticket by email, usually within ten minutes. See what the ticket looks like.
Asked just now, answered live by brAIAIn
What do programmers want for Christmas?
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This is the gift. It knows only what people paid to teach it. Your recipient gets to teach it one more thing.
How the gift works
- Buy a gift ticket. Checkout asks who it is for and who it is from.
- Get the ticket by email. It has a single-use gift code and a QR code.
- Print it or forward the link. The printed ticket fits in a 5 by 7 card.
- They scan it and write one sentence. They try it on a preview of the model, then check out for $0.00. Their new model version usually goes live within minutes.
Why programmers get it
- They can read the code. The whole model runs in their browser from one small script. View source. The trainer is Python standard library only, with no installs, on a free scheduled job.
- Their sentence goes into public training data. Every sentence the model knows is listed on the Training data page, with the version it created.
- Inference runs in their browser. The model is a small JSON file. Open the dev tools and watch it count words.
- The benchmarks are real. The model is scored on all 1,319 GSM8K test problems and reported next to the best published scores, with sources. It scores 0.0%.
- It is public domain. Code, model and training data are CC0. They can copy the whole lab.
Pick a size
| The Minnow. One sentence and a new version with their name on the release notes. | $2.49 |
| The Shark. Everything above, plus a printable certificate signed by the board. | $9.99 |
| The Whale. Everything above, and they choose the version's codename. | $24.99 |
Prefer to write the sentence for them? That is on the gifts page.
Questions
Is it a real model?
Yes. It is a count-based trigram model with backoff, the kind from a first NLP course. It has a few hundred parameters, and the spec sheet counts them live.
Where is the code?
The model code is the script the site loads, readable with View Source. The model files and every release are public, and each release is also on Hugging Face.
How fast does their version ship?
The trainer runs every ten minutes. The scheduler is sometimes late, as schedulers are.
Can it be returned?
No. Gift tickets are not refundable. There is no rollback, only the next version.
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BRAIAIN Laboratories is a parody AI lab with a real model. The sentence and the name it is credited to are public, so leave out anything private. Gift tickets are not refundable. Terms.