Gasper Begus

The paper was 10 years in the making! Read it here: doi.org/10.1007/s110...

In Tarma, Peru a very interesting dialect of Quechua is spoken. We analyzed the recordings and show that the dialect features one of the most intriguing phonotactic restrictions. Stops are voiced after a voiceless stop and voiceless after a nasal.

What should cultural analytics do about genAI? We address the infrastructural force of narratives within AI corporatization, argue for constitutive humanism against a purely decorative stance, and suggest methods to examine the function of narratives within and around AI. ssrn.com/abstract=758...

Old conceptual frameworks need an update. Very excited to be awarded the Schmidt Sciences HAVI Award for "Rethinking Language" in collaboration with @ninabegus.bsky.social . Humanities have a bright future! www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2026-an...

Old conceptual frameworks need an update. Very excited to be awarded the Schmidt Sciences HAVI Award for "Rethinking Language" in collaboration with @ninabegus.bsky.social . Humanities have a bright future! www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2026-an...

Imagitation it itself imagitation. Read this great book! @metahaven.bsky.social

Imagitation it itself imagitation. Read this great book! @metahaven.bsky.social

Baby GANs as a matter of fact.

If we believe in AI’s ability to control us, and AI is unable to do so, we lose little. If we don’t believe in singularity, and AI can in fact control us, we stand to lose everything. Wager, then, without hesitation, that AI is (able to control us)! Read here: begus.substack.com/p/pascals-wa...

interesting talk about, in part, whale language. for whatever reasons i went into this pretty knee-jerk skeptical about such claims but was more or less converted. hello, whales archive.org/details/redw...

If we believe in AI’s ability to control us, and AI is unable to do so, we lose little. If we don’t believe in singularity, and AI can in fact control us, we stand to lose everything. Wager, then, without hesitation, that AI is (able to control us)! Read here: begus.substack.com/p/pascals-wa...

"We built an artificial baby model that learns language directly from raw sound and trained it to imitate whale speech. Then we looked inside." Vowels in whale language discovered with baby LLM <3

Not transformer-based, but a GAN language model has helped with this already!

✨Insightful and timely research opening new perspectives…learn more here…

We form our identities always in relation to the other. The other used to be the animals, now the other is artificial, silicon intelligence. This provides an opportunity to identify as a biological intelligence that will unite the natural world. begus.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

We form our identities always in relation to the other. The other used to be the animals, now the other is artificial, silicon intelligence. This provides an opportunity to identify as a biological intelligence that will unite the natural world. begus.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

Perhaps the next Theory of Evolution is the realization that we are just one of many possible and diverse intelligences and that our legal, societal, and value systems should be adjusted accordingly. Read full essay here: begus.substack.com/p/the-next-t... Or: zenodo.org/records/2307...

Perhaps the next Theory of Evolution is the realization that we are just one of many possible and diverse intelligences and that our legal, societal, and value systems should be adjusted accordingly. Read full essay here: begus.substack.com/p/the-next-t... Or: zenodo.org/records/2307...

Department of Marine Linguistics

Department of Marine Linguistics

I don’t think the exact amount of fatigue you get from teaching is public knowledge It’s a unique mix of adrenaline crash and simple exhaustion Last night I was lying prone on the couch and barely had the strength to type “Hamburger” into Google Maps 😂

What is college if knowledge, teaching, and advising are available from machines? One model has answers to many challenges that AI is posing today: residential education where students learn from each other to be bold, original, and uniquely human while living, eating and socializing together.

What is college if knowledge, teaching, and advising are available from machines? One model has answers to many challenges that AI is posing today: residential education where students learn from each other to be bold, original, and uniquely human while living, eating and socializing together.

My talk on a new conceptualization of language at the Science of Intelligence seminar at Berkeley. archive.org/details/redw...

Handout from today. zenodo.org/records/2280...

Handout from today. zenodo.org/records/2280...

I'm presenting this today, 1pm PST/4pm EST, lmk if you'd like a zoom link.

I'm presenting this at Berkeley Linguistics' Phorum. LMK if you'd like to zoom in.

For example: 3rd sg. śrótu, 2nd du. śrutám, 2nd pl. śróta. Also maybe: 1st pl. sumus, 2nd pl. estis, 3rd pl. sunt. My attempt to squeeze out the last human-generated ideas before AI takes over. escholarship.org/uc/item/8608...

My coping mechanism in the age of AI: write more Proto-Indo-European papers. Here’s a story on the origin of PIE mobility. I argue that in Pre-PIE, a rule operated that whereby heavy syllables attracted stress from the root to the ending. I focus on root nouns and verbs.

Surrealism is the concrete aesthetic language for our moment

Yes, Joyce was exploring the prior layers of language. Here's a project that lets you explore those prior stages: latentspacecraft.antikythera.org Glad to se that the industry is coming to the same conclusion! @metahaven.bsky.social @ninabegus.bsky.social @robert-booth.bsky.social

Great point @begus.bsky.social. As @robert-booth.bsky.social writes about puzzling Joycean lingo now uttered by agential AI, "Latent Spacecraft" (with @ninabegus.bsky.social) researched both "Finnegans Wake" as a written-out latent space and artificial neural networks as babbling engines

Yes, Joyce was exploring the prior layers of language. Here's a project that lets you explore those prior stages: latentspacecraft.antikythera.org Glad to se that the industry is coming to the same conclusion! @metahaven.bsky.social @ninabegus.bsky.social @robert-booth.bsky.social

"Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans," with the brilliant @ninabegus.bsky.social, @begus.bsky.social & Riccardo Petrini, is still major for us. An artificial neural network's vector space becomes navigable. "Finnegans Wake," James Joyce's novel, gets read as a latent space

See more on the link and please feel free to reach out with any questions. I'd be happy to share the book proposal form. www.exeterpress.co.uk/collections/...

A new book series just dropped!

Oh you have to check this out!! ls.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berk...

"Reject Silicone, embrace the Clay." -- Kyle Langley, LinkedIn Sept 13, 2026