Among other things, this confirms @ninabegus.bsky.social chose a prescient title for her recent book.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong is searching for an assistant professor in AI Humanities. Application deadline March 29.

Spotted Artificial Humanities at the Harvard Book Store! @uofmpress.bsky.social

Harvard's magazine reporting on our paper 'Latent Spacecraft' with @metahaven.bsky.social and @begus.bsky.social gsas.harvard.edu/news/what-fi...

Honored to be among the keynote speakers for the upcoming conference “AI and the Creative Condition” on March 23-24 in Aarhus. Huge thanks to Mads Rosendahl Thomsen for organizing and hosting the conference at TEXT - Center for Contemporary Cultures of Text! arts.au.dk/en/text/conf...

My book is available for free on a kindle format these days!

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

I Schools are perfect for this kind of work and have a bright future! @berkeleyischool.bsky.social

Going back to the I School this Wednesday to discuss artificial humanities as a research approach. I School folks, let me know if you'd like to join - lunch is served! www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2026/...

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

Modes of Reading - today and tomorrow at Berkeley's Townsend Center townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/events/close...

Artificial Humanities is a bestseller on Amazon's kindle! Snatch it while it's free :)

Check out the book on how millennia old Pygmalion myth becomes one of the most relevant topics of our time!

Artificial Humanities is a bestseller on Amazon's kindle! Snatch it while it's free :)

Nice chat… ✨😊✨

Berkeley’s Clark Kerr campus

The recording of my book chat on Artificial Humanities at Townsend Center for Humanities is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yLM... @uofmpress.bsky.social

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

Latent Spacecraft pertains to latent space as an interiority of AI which can be made navigable. The piece tests this idea for fiwGAN (for Featural InfoWaveGAN), a speech-generating artificial neural network by @begus.bsky.social et al - see latentspacecraft.antikythera.org cc @ninabegus.bsky.social

"Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans" (DOI 10.1162/ANTI.5KP1) creates a craft to explore the interior space of a GAN. By @ninabegus.bsky.social @metahaven.bsky.social & @begus.bsky.social Interface(s) by @metahaven.bsky.social & Riccardo Petrini - latentspacecraft.antikythera.org

Fascinating paper and exploration of language through AI and Finnegans Wake 🤯 Can’t wait to dig in more

- AI has a physical interior space. - By exploring language’s uncharted cognitive terrain both in humans and machines, we bring attention to the interiority of speech in brains and in computational models.

pre-speech edge, further into entropic interiority. Generated outputs portray limits of intelligibility and make the model’s interior layers a site for interpretative exploration. - Language is a final linearizing layer over a richer prelinguistic space.

New paper on Why Slop Matters w/ great group of co authors (@hoytlong.bsky.social @eduede.bsky.social @ari-holtzman.bsky.social + others not on Bluesky) from ACM AI Letters. We try to move the debate re: AI Slop past normative, neg claims & towards parsing its social uses. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Here's the paper, where you can explore the model's internal representations in real time. One of the rare artistic collaborations where the models are actually initialized live: latentspacecraft.antikythera.org

AI is creating a new kind of space, the latent space. We pair art and internal interpretability techniques to explore philosophical implications of these new spaces. FinneGAN generates speech, based on the text of the novel, and pushes the language of Finnegans Wake toward the

Berkeley folks, this year’s Language and AI Conference is almost here, both in-person and online. Nicole Oliva is presenting our work on the Midas myth and robotics, arguing for a more liminal approach. Register here: blc.berkeley.edu/initiatives/...

@begus.bsky.social @ninabegus.bsky.social nice pairing on my timeline:

Doing my favorite thing: chatting about Artificial Humanities!

Loved this conversation on Artificial Humanities with Philip! 🤿 open.spotify.com/episode/1FsM...

Hybrid event tomorrow!

Tomorrow at noon at Townsend!

iPad kids

Registrations for this talk at OpenAI are available here: forum.openai.com/home/events/...

Starting the semester with a Book Chat at Townsend Center in conversation with a true comrade in the pursuit of artificial humanities @hannesbajohr.de. Open to everyone! events.berkeley.edu/iseees/event...

“This is a call to take fiction seriously as a real force in technological development.” — @hekiwi.bsky.social, co-founder, @artificiality.bsky.social Congratulations to @uofmpress.bsky.social author @ninabegus.bsky.social on ARTIFICIAL HUMANITIES being named a 2025 Artificiality Book Award winner!

Nailed it.

"The argument runs deeper than most discussions--even many academic ones--about the myths that continue to be reproduced through our stories about AI..." Congrats to "Artificial Humanities" on being named a 2025 Artificiality Book Award winner!

My book is available for free on a kindle format these days!

LLMs stage a massive, automated cultural encounter, yet remain structurally monolingual. My paper for a proposed Cultural AI issue (forthcoming in 2027) argues that literary studies offer practical tools for diagnosing and redesigning LLMs as cultural machines. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Jean Epstein, in 1946, called cinema "the intelligence of a machine."

Going to MLA soon to talk about digital infrastructures of knowledge creation

Interpretability 101: The model is deciding whether to lie or not.

Have I caught the Baltic Sea meeting the North Sea?

Starting with an online session today!

What a great and engaged review of the book! "What lifts the book into something genuinely energizing is its refusal to stop at diagnosis. Artificial humanities is proposed not as a critique perched safely on the sidelines but as an operating principle." onepercentrule.substack.com/p/artificial...

Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik's chicken coops for a Viennese family