@begus.bsky.social
Assoc. Professor at UC Berkeley Artificial and biological intelligence and language Linguistics Lead at Project CETI 🐳 PI Berkeley Biological and Artificial Language Lab 🗣️ College Principal of Bowles Hall 🏰 https://www.gasperbegus.com
Hoppers is in the theaters! I gave a comment on the scientific approach for @sciam.bsky.social. Can’t wait to see the movie this weekend.
@projectceti.bsky.social
Beethoven on Händel: "the master of us all... the greatest composer that ever lived. I would uncover my head and kneel before his tomb."
Consciousness and animal communications experts weigh in on whether the mind-melding science in Hoppers could ever be possible
Piangerò la sorte mia
sì crudele e tanto ria
finché vita in petto avrò.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkGC...
Aristotle on social animals. Some have rulers, some don’t.
Our reconstruction is that AN voice comes from prepositions turned post verbs where the newly unmarked object gets reanalyzed as subjects after pro-drop:
ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/007...
As AI becomes ever more interwoven in daily life, new research from Nina Beguš, PhD ’20, and Gašper Beguš, PhD '18, is beginning to map out machine learning’ "latent space," the hidden mathematical area that processes information and eventually produces an output.
Harvard's magazine reporting on our paper 'Latent Spacecraft'
with @metahaven.bsky.social and @begus.bsky.social
gsas.harvard.edu/news/what-fi...
Unfortunately not. There are other talks recorded here:
www.gasperbegus.com/videos
implications. If language is a continuum (and the only necessary condition is informative imitation), then the barrier is gone.
Language like-abilities also mean we could see their ability to enter contractual relations, express pain etc.
More here:
www.ecologylawquarterly.org/wp-content/u...
The idea is that if we think language and thought are separate (we cite @evfedorenko.bsky.social'swork), then language can serve as a window into the inter worlds of animals.
We show one of the highest degrees of complexity in the animal kingdom (with vowels for example), which has legal
I don't, but in western law, language is often the last frontier, last barrier to keep animals from being subjects of rights. The argument is much more complex than that, however. In the paper we have a long discussion.
But emerging research in Al and animal communication challenges this assumption. This talk presents a new theory of language across humans, animals, and machines, and explores how this shift could reshape legal understandings of personhood, agency, and the scope of rights."
Linguistics and law working together to make changes in the animal rights law.
It was great speaking at NYU Law on AI, animals, and law.
"Law has long treated language as a uniquely human capacity-and a foundation for rights.
If you call it the bunny's letter, maybe it isn't so bad?
My @nyulaw.bsky.social talk is happening tomorrow instead of today (❄️)
www.law.nyu.edu/events/disti...
Very few artworks have the actual model running in real time and generating outputs on the go.
Below is a GAN model trained on Finnegans Wake audio, FinneGAN.
Explore the latent spaces with Latent Spacecraft:
latentspacecraft.antikythera.org
@metahaven.bsky.social @begus.bsky.social
Understanding AI can bring us closer to the natural world and can have profound legal implications.
I'm honored to give a Distinguished Speaker Series lecture at NYU Law on AI, language, and rights of animals.
www.law.nyu.edu/events/disti...
Understanding AI can bring us closer to the natural world and can have profound legal implications.
I'm honored to give a Distinguished Speaker Series lecture at NYU Law on AI, language, and rights of animals.
www.law.nyu.edu/events/disti...
Is it watermarking? Is it coincidence? It’s not watermarking, it’s not coincidence. It’s LLMs playing poetic games with us.
The one construction by which I recognize LLM writing is the “it’s not X, it’s Y” construction.
It reminds me so much of the Slavic antithesis. We should call it the LLM antithesis. Where did LLMs get this from?
A great piece on exploring the latent spaces by poetic engineering
open.substack.com/pub/poeticen...
Whales exchange vowels in conversations. It was wonderful to speak to our CBS News station about this wonderful species.
@projectceti.bsky.social
Check out the book on how millennia old Pygmalion myth becomes one of the most relevant topics of our time!
The first time I see a whale drawing on a talk announcement 💙 come to my talk and hear about AI interpretability, building realistic models of human learning and animal communication.
Imagining will be more important than executing in the future. That’s where fiction and humanities excels.
Imagining will be more important than executing in the future. That’s where fiction and humanities excels.
Humanities offer crucial tools for the development of AI. Now companies are realizing this. Check out Nina Begus book for guidelines on how to use the humanities in AI development:
www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
@ninabegus.bsky.social
