- Hey kid, what are you drawing?
- A masterpiece.

What’s really happening inside AI’s black box? Berkeley researchers have answers Scientists have traditionally treated the internal mathematical layers of artificial intelligence — often described as AI’s “black boxes” — as too abstract and complex for humans to fully interpret. B...

with @begus.bsky.social and @metahaven.bsky.social

“I hope that our research encourages academics to build their own models and to collaborate more with humanists and artists. Humanistic insights should be at the forefront of AI development,” Nina said.

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You can preorder the first one through the press website with 30% off (code UMWEB30) to be delivered on October 20 @uofmpress.bsky.social
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Excited for new books coming out this year at @textculture.bsky.social
- First Encounters with AI: Writers on Writing
- Beyond the Turing Test: What Science Fiction Can Teach Us About AI

Artificial Humanities Artificial Humanities explores how literature, history, and art can deepen our understanding of artificial intelligence and its development. By examining fictional representations of AI in parallel wi...

Excellent book about the Pygmalion myth and AI: press.umich.edu/Books/A/Arti...

No and no:)

Ive always wanted to see a bobcat. Didn’t expect it to be that dramatic - it devoured a turkey twice its size!

A story in two pictures

My crown jumped a letter to Begǔs :)

Harvard Magazine recommends Artificial Humanities @uofmpress.bsky.social

Link: www.harvardmagazine.com/arts-culture...

"Two Dancers on a Stage" (1874) by Edgar Degas—was intentionally cropped by the artist as part of his radical approach to composition. Degas used these "accidental" framing techniques to create a sense of modern immediacy, often influenced by photography and Japanese woodblock prints

This reminds me of Edgar Degas pioneering the "snapshot" look (1860s). 📸🎨 By painting in a radical, off-center composition and cropped figures (i.e., cutting off a horse's tail, a dancer’s arm, etc.) to mimic the accidental framing of early off-center photographs or Japanese prints.

“Any creative output today can be touched by AI in one way or another without us being able to prove it. Authorship is disintegrating into new directions, becoming more technologically enhanced and more collective. We need to revamp our creativity criteria that were made solely for humans."

Really, you made this without AI? Prove it The quest to find the ‘Fair Trade’ logo for human-made content.

In Verge today commenting on the human-made v AI-generated: www.theverge.com/tech/906453/...

How, we ask, does such polychronicity determine or disrupt epistemic claims? What happens to our experience of the world and of ourselves when we enter a temporal zone artificially produced by LLMs—a space often devoid of external referents? 2/2

Temporalities of AI What are the temporalities of neural networks? How do machines encode time, and how do they structure our experience of time? What are the consequences of a neural network’s attempt to simulate tempor...

Ramona Naddaff and I will speak about polychronic models, exploring the diverse and coexistent temporalities that generative AI model families manufacture, ranging from the ephemeral and the oneiric temporality to the archival and the counterfactual temporality. 1/2

www.biblhertz.it/events/45218...

Some time later: “I read some of your book and it’s actually really interesting and boring at the same time!”

Making AI More Human Making AI More Human: An interview with Berkeley researcher and author Nina Begus about her new book and proposal to fuse science and the humanities

@ninabegus.bsky.social featured on Nautilus speaks about her upcoming book Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI.

"We mold AI with our cultural imaginaries..There are so many other ways to imagine, build, and use AI," she says.

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They actually generalize beyond the corpus - that’s the charm of GANs! The FiwGAN model was trained on 8 words of English and produced many more words and nonce words - I write about it here: latentspacecraft.antikythera.org

They actually generalize beyond the corpus - that’s the charm of GANs! The FiwGAN model was trained on 8 words of English and produced many more words and nonce words - I write about it here: latentspacecraft.antikythera.org

#33 Talking to Whales with Gašper Beguš Podcast Episode · The Edge · April 7 · 29m

A great podcast on how AI can help us with scientific discovery and what legal implications this will bear in the future.

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Some time later: “I read some of your book and it’s actually really interesting and boring at the same time!”

Knowing Your Creativity, Part 2: Speaking Finnegan’s Wake Researchers trained an AI exclusively on Joyce’s novel. The objective was to map the inner realm where, perhaps, literary creativity happens.

On FinneGAN exploration of latent spaces
rickmossart.substack.com/p/knowing-yo...

Monkey’s Paws & Paperclips Did Ray Bradbury predict the future?

Meg Shriber on fiction and technology, discussing the Pygmalion myth in American SciFi and technology-making and concluding with a comparison with other cultural traditions - Japanese, Latin American, Afrofuturism.

www.harbus.org/post/monkey-...

Making AI More Human Making AI More Human: An interview with Berkeley researcher and author Nina Begus about her new book and proposal to fuse science and the humanities

ArtHum in Nautilus: "While AI is new in a manifest sense, humans have been telling stories of artificial intelligence for ages. Today we have Her and Ex Machina, but these stories owe much to tales that came before them. The ancient Greeks told of Pygmalion, whose statue was granted life."

ants build soil chimneys around nest openings

Explore "Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans" by BIDS Affiliates @ninabegus.bsky.social and @begus.bsky.social

latentspacecraft.antikythera.org

First post on Substack: a summary of yesterday's talk on biohacking.

ninabegus.substack.com/p/fiction-sa...

Nina Begus on artificial humanities, AI archetypes, limiting and productive metaphors, and human extension "🧠 Join researcher and author Nina Begus as she explores how ancient myths, expansive metaphors, and the humanities are shaping the next wave of AI design and creativity. Discover why collaboration be...

How myth, fiction, language, and the humanities shape the way we imagine and build machines

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