Nina Beguš
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UC Berkeley - InterpretAI Artificial Humanities - First Encounters with AI www.ninabegus.com
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Among other things, this confirms
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chose a prescient title for her recent book.
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong is searching for an assistant professor in AI Humanities. Application deadline March 29.
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Assistant Professor (AI Humanities)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
https://cuhk.taleo.net/careersection/cu_career_teach/jobdetail.ftl?job=260000BI&tz=GMT%2B08%3A00&tzname=Asia%2FHong_Kong
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Spotted Artificial Humanities at the Harvard Book Store!
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Harvard's magazine reporting on our paper 'Latent Spacecraft' with
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What Finnegans Wake Teaches Us about AI
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 ar...
https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/what-finnegans-wake-teaches-us-about-ai
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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...
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https://arts.au.dk/en/text/conference-ai-and-the-creative-condition
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My book is available for free on a kindle format these days!
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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
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I Schools are perfect for this kind of work and have a bright future!
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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/...
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I School Research Exchange: Nina Beguš
Feb 25, 2026, 12:00 pm - For I School faculty and Ph.D. students: Nina Beguš presents her work on “Artificial Humanities” from her recent book.
https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2026/i-school-research-exchange-nina-begus
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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
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Modes of Reading - today and tomorrow at Berkeley's Townsend Center
townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/events/close...
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Making a Literary Future with Artificial Intelligence | Los Angeles Review of Books
Five writers and AI researchers discuss the future of literature.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/artificial-intelligence-literary-future-chatgpt-large-language-model/?fbclid=IwY2xjawP-UsZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETJLMkxiVkVGbTR2SVpVaTJDc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHrS8foAe--DBL8iGm0S29X8vagy6xa0ZE0KxX26sbSE3EeSpusp1lyMIHhkG_aem_0GL7L29zVRLrduwNUGB9RA
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Artificial Humanities is a bestseller on Amazon's kindle! Snatch it while it's free :)
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Gasper Begus
19 days ago
Check out the book on how millennia old Pygmalion myth becomes one of the most relevant topics of our time!
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Artificial Humanities is a bestseller on Amazon's kindle! Snatch it while it's free :)
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DeBarra Shaw
18 days ago
Nice chat… ✨😊✨
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Berkeley’s Clark Kerr campus
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The recording of my book chat on Artificial Humanities at Townsend Center for Humanities is now available:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yLM...
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Nina Beguš Book Chat
YouTube video by Townsend Center for the Humanities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yLMIPpHwqc
19 days ago
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Gasper Begus
20 days ago
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...
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metahaven
21 days ago
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
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et al - see
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metahaven
22 days ago
"Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans" (DOI 10.1162/ANTI.5KP1) creates a craft to explore the interior space of a GAN. By
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Interface(s) by
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& Riccardo Petrini -
latentspacecraft.antikythera.org
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funferall
24 days ago
Fascinating paper and exploration of language through AI and Finnegans Wake 🤯 Can’t wait to dig in more
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Gasper Begus
24 days ago
- 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.
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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.
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Richard Jean So
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New paper on Why Slop Matters w/ great group of co authors (
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+ 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/...
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Why Slop Matters | ACM AI Letters
AI-generated “slop” is often seen as digital pollution. We argue that this dismissal of the topic risks missing important aspects of AI Slop which deserve rigorous study. AI Slop serves a social funct...
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786777
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Gasper Begus
24 days ago
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
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Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans.
Latent Spacecraft combines computational linguistics, neuroscience, and literary analysis to investigate latent space, i.e. the hidden internal structure that enables both humans and machines to produ...
https://latentspacecraft.antikythera.org
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Gasper Begus
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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
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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/...
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Language and AI Conference | Berkeley Language Center
https://blc.berkeley.edu/initiatives/language-ai/language-and-ai-conference
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James Tauber
29 days ago
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nice pairing on my timeline:
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Doing my favorite thing: chatting about Artificial Humanities!
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Loved this conversation on Artificial Humanities with Philip! 🤿
open.spotify.com/episode/1FsM...
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Episode 247: Artificial Humanities w/ Nina Begus
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1FsMepZIwLKIFSoJ0XV9eN?si=c7a0a0307e1a4012
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Hybrid event tomorrow!
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Tomorrow at noon at Townsend!
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iPad kids
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about 1 month ago
Registrations for this talk at OpenAI are available here:
forum.openai.com/home/events/...
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Starting the semester with a Book Chat at Townsend Center in conversation with a true comrade in the pursuit of artificial humanities
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. Open to everyone!
events.berkeley.edu/iseees/event...
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Berkeley Book Chat with Nina Beguš
Nina Beguš explores how literature, history, and art can deepen our understanding of artificial intelligence and guide us toward a more thoughtful...
https://events.berkeley.edu/iseees/event/312694-berkeley-book-chat-with-nina-begus
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Derek Pollard, PhD
about 1 month ago
“This is a call to take fiction seriously as a real force in technological development.” —
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, co-founder,
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Congratulations to
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author
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on ARTIFICIAL HUMANITIES being named a 2025 Artificiality Book Award winner!
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Nailed it.
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University of Michigan Press
about 2 months ago
"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!
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Artificiality Book Awards 2025 plus a working library of past must-reads
Congratulations to the winners of the Artificiality Book Awards 2025!
https://journal.artificialityinstitute.org/artificiality-book-awards-2025/
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My book is available for free on a kindle format these days!
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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.
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World Wide Models: Literary Tools for Cultural AI
LLMs stage a new form of cultural encounter, massive, automated, and monolingual. Literary disciplines have always negotiated cultural struggles with comparativ
https://ssrn.com/abstract=5865344
about 2 months ago
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Jean Epstein, in 1946, called cinema "the intelligence of a machine."
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Going to MLA soon to talk about digital infrastructures of knowledge creation
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Interpretability 101: The model is deciding whether to lie or not.
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Have I caught the Baltic Sea meeting the North Sea?
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Starting with an online session today!
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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...
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Artificial Humanities
Nina Beguš and the Responsibility of Authorship
https://onepercentrule.substack.com/p/artificial-humanities
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Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik's chicken coops for a Viennese family
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