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Baby GANs as a matter of fact.

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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...

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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...

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Gasper Begus: Understanding humans, animals, and machines

Talk by Gasper Begus of UC Berkeley. Given as part of the Science of Intelligence lecture series held Fall semester 2026 at UC Berkeley.

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Myles Lobdell @myleslobdell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I wonder if this is how it might work if we ever encounter extra-terrestrial life.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"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

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Grace @gracekind.net · 05/10/2026

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

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DeBarra Shaw @d2chattoway.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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...

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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...

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The next Theory of Evolution

New evidence from large language models and animal communication challenges human linguistic exceptionalism. What is the path forward?

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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The next Theory of Evolution

New evidence from large language models and animal communication challenges human linguistic exceptionalism. What is the path forward?

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Love to hear this! Which paper?

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is now clear that the humanities will rule the future of higher education. Here's a good starting point: Artificial Humanities introduced humanistic thought to the development of AI. First Encounters extends this and reflects on writing in AI.

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Subfields: marine philology, computational marine linguistics, ...

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Department of Marine Linguistics

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Department of Marine Linguistics

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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 😂

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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.

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The future is in residential education

The most transformative education happens when students learn uniquely human skills over meals and tea time

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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The future is in residential education

The most transformative education happens when students learn uniquely human skills over meals and tea time

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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

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

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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

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

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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...

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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.

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Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Surrealism is the concrete aesthetic language for our moment

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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

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metahaven @metahaven.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And now the industry is finding the same thing! bsky.app/profile/begu...

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metahaven @metahaven.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"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

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