Gasper Begus

Artificial Humanities launches now in a conversation with the author @ninabegus.bsky.social, Ted Chiang and James Yu.

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We need HumArXiv! @ninabegus.bsky.social

The book is launching tomorrow:

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The book is launching tomorrow:

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How Greek myths and Hollywood hits can help us understand AI today - Berkeley News In her new book, UC Berkeley researcher Nina Beguš explores how art, history and literature provide a window into AI development, revealing a hopeful — and cautionary — path forward for humanity.

In her new book, UC Berkeley researcher Nina Beguš explores how art, history and literature provide a window into AI development, revealing a hopeful — and cautionary — path forward for humanity. news.berkeley.edu/2025/12/01/h...

Creating artificial life has been in the domain of fiction for millennia. Artificial Humanities leverages fiction and humanities for evaluating and creating AI in the future.

The book launches tomorrow in a conversation with the author @ninabegus.bsky.social, Ted Chiang and James Yu.

The book argues that insights from Pygmalion, Eliza Doolittle, and Her can steer how we design and judge AI--bridging humanities and real‑world product work.

Read it Open Access here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

How Greek myths and Hollywood hits can help us understand AI today - Berkeley News In her new book, UC Berkeley researcher Nina Beguš explores how art, history and literature provide a window into AI development, revealing a hopeful — and cautionary — path forward for humanity.

AI cannot be evaluated with the classical quantitative approaches anymore. It's time to bring the humanistic methodology to the study of development of AI.

Berkeley News today:
"How Greek myths and Hollywood hits can help us understand AI today?"

news.berkeley.edu/2025/12/01/h...

Creating artificial life has been in the domain of fiction for millennia. Artificial Humanities leverages fiction and humanities for evaluating and creating AI in the future.

The book launches tomorrow in a conversation with the author @ninabegus.bsky.social, Ted Chiang and James Yu.

Thanks for sharing!

Vowel- and Diphthong-Like Spectral Patterns in Sperm Whale Codas Abstract. The sperm whale communication system, consisting of groups of clicks called codas, has been primarily analyzed in terms of the number of clicks and their inter-click timing. This paper repor...

Original paper is here direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

This would be a wonderful positive AI use-case. Although a strange, difficult reality for a lot of people in 2025.

Excited to see our metalinguistic research featured in one of the largest Swedish newspapers. 🗞️

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Breakthrough Study Reveals Human-Like Voices Inside Sperm Whale Clicks | GreaterGood Scientists may have just unlocked one of the ocean’s biggest mysteries. New research reveals that sperm whales produce vowel-like sounds hidden inside their familiar clicks—patterns only heard after s...

Breakthrough Study Reveals Human-Like Voices Inside Sperm Whale Clicks
🐋 New research reveals that sperm whales produce vowel-like sounds hidden inside their familiar clicks—patterns only heard after speeding up thousands of recordings from family clans off Dominica.
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This is Aristoteles, not me :)

I am an Indo-Europeanist so it’s a required part of the curriculum.

I studied it yes.

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Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI <I>Artificial Humanities</I> explores how literature, history, and art can deepen our understanding of artificial intelligence and its development. By examining fictional representations of AI in para...

Congrats to @ninabegus.bsky.social on publishing "Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI." It’s open access on @uofmpress.bsky.social; OA publication made possible in part from UCB Library’s Berkeley Research Impact Initiative. www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

Paperback copy of Artificial Humanities with the text now available, this book is open access

The new #openaccess book "Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI" by Nina Beguš encourages readers to use the humanities to thoughtfully approach the development of AI. Start reading now at doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

Artificial Humanities #1 in Amazon Hot New releases!

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(C) Alex Boersma

I'm teaching a new class at Berkeley next semester:

Linguistics 265: Biological and Artificial Language

From the syllabus:
This class is an introduction to a novel approach to language. Linguistics has predominantly focused on
human language.

Wish I could take it. I also hope they look later into markets: LLMs are obviously hot these days in language, but I've always had a soft spot for markets as pseudo-minds[1].

[1] i.e. an Azatoth-egregore muttering to itself at high-frequency while the press mistranslates its nonhuman thoughts.

My idea of Heaven (like, when you have all the time you want, good health, no obligations, no guilt, and no FOMO) - Heaven is taking courses like that. That's Heaven.

Vice versa, using linguistic methodology in animal communication and AI can help us gain a better understanding of both artificial and biological language and intelligence

The class will introduce a multifaceted approach with human, non-human, and artificial language acting as mutually informative systems. By learning about non human language, we will better understand human language and its uniqueness.
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Recent developments in machine learning and animal communication, however, require us to look beyond the humans. We will extend the definition of language and model it as informative imitation.

(C) Alex Boersma

I'm teaching a new class at Berkeley next semester:

Linguistics 265: Biological and Artificial Language

From the syllabus:
This class is an introduction to a novel approach to language. Linguistics has predominantly focused on
human language.