Gasper Begus
@begus.bsky.social
Assoc. Professor at UC Berkeley
Artificial and biological intelligence and language
Linguistics Lead at Project CETI 🐳
PI Berkeley Biological and Artificial Language Lab 🗣️
College Principal of Bowles Hall 🏰
https://www.gasperbegus.com
Artificial and biological intelligence and language
Linguistics Lead at Project CETI 🐳
PI Berkeley Biological and Artificial Language Lab 🗣️
College Principal of Bowles Hall 🏰
https://www.gasperbegus.com
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I'm presenting this at Berkeley Linguistics' Phorum. LMK if you'd like to zoom in.
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.
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.
September 17, 2026 at 10:24 PM
I'm presenting this at Berkeley Linguistics' Phorum. LMK if you'd like to zoom in.
I'm presenting this at Berkeley Linguistics' Phorum. LMK if you'd like to zoom in.
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.
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.
September 17, 2026 at 10:24 PM
I'm presenting this at Berkeley Linguistics' Phorum. LMK if you'd like to zoom in.
Reposted by Gasper Begus
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...
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...
September 16, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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...
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...
Reposted by Gasper Begus
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.
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.
September 16, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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.
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.
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.
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.
September 16, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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.
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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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
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
September 16, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Surrealism is the concrete aesthetic language for our moment
Reposted by Gasper Begus
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
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
September 15, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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
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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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
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
September 15, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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
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
September 15, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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
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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"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
"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
September 15, 2026 at 8:49 PM
"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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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/...
Artificial Humanities
Series editor: Nina Beguš, University of California, Berkeley, USAEditorial advisory board members:Stanley Qiufan Chen, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong KongRanjodh Singh Dhaliwal, University o...
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September 15, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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!
September 15, 2026 at 7:25 PM
A new book series just dropped!
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Oh you have to check this out!! ls.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berk...
UC Berkeley and Project CETI study shows sperm whales communicate in ways similar to humans
The way sperm whales communicate may be more similar to human language than previously thought. The acoustic properties of whale calls resemble vowels, a defining feature of human language, according ...
ls.berkeley.edu
September 1, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Oh you have to check this out!! ls.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berk...
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"Reject Silicone, embrace the Clay."
-- Kyle Langley, LinkedIn Sept 13, 2026
-- Kyle Langley, LinkedIn Sept 13, 2026
Best way to escape AI: start writing in cuneiform. It’s how it all started!
September 13, 2026 at 8:21 PM
"Reject Silicone, embrace the Clay."
-- Kyle Langley, LinkedIn Sept 13, 2026
-- Kyle Langley, LinkedIn Sept 13, 2026
Society of Fellows > Society of Agents
September 14, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Society of Fellows > Society of Agents
"Reject Silicone, embrace the Clay."
-- Kyle Langley, LinkedIn Sept 13, 2026
-- Kyle Langley, LinkedIn Sept 13, 2026
Best way to escape AI: start writing in cuneiform. It’s how it all started!
September 13, 2026 at 8:21 PM
"Reject Silicone, embrace the Clay."
-- Kyle Langley, LinkedIn Sept 13, 2026
-- Kyle Langley, LinkedIn Sept 13, 2026
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appropriately for the current moment it started with tokens before inscription
September 13, 2026 at 3:53 AM
appropriately for the current moment it started with tokens before inscription
Best way to escape AI: start writing in cuneiform. It’s how it all started!
September 13, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Best way to escape AI: start writing in cuneiform. It’s how it all started!
Unusual pathways will be increasingly important.
Here’s what to do in the age of AI proofs.
begus.substack.com/p/study-some...
Here’s what to do in the age of AI proofs.
begus.substack.com/p/study-some...
Study something unusual, such as Hieroglyphic Luwian
I was recently asked what advice I have for students interested in research. This is my response.
begus.substack.com
September 10, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Unusual pathways will be increasingly important.
Here’s what to do in the age of AI proofs.
begus.substack.com/p/study-some...
Here’s what to do in the age of AI proofs.
begus.substack.com/p/study-some...
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AI will unite the biological world.
September 10, 2026 at 6:21 AM
AI will unite the biological world.
AI will unite the biological world.
September 10, 2026 at 6:21 AM
AI will unite the biological world.
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No. Some of it will be the crab canon.
September 9, 2026 at 11:32 PM
No. Some of it will be the crab canon.
Everything written or created by 2026 will be the human canon. We're the last generation that will make it into history.
September 9, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Everything written or created by 2026 will be the human canon. We're the last generation that will make it into history.
Preorder here: press.umich.edu/Books/F/Firs...
September 9, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Preorder here: press.umich.edu/Books/F/Firs...
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Siblings are finally united!
What is writing and reading in the time of AI?
Ted Chiang, Ken Liu, Sheila Heti, Sasha Stiles, James Yu, and other amazing writers reflect and offer new possibilities.
@uofmpress.bsky.social
What is writing and reading in the time of AI?
Ted Chiang, Ken Liu, Sheila Heti, Sasha Stiles, James Yu, and other amazing writers reflect and offer new possibilities.
@uofmpress.bsky.social
September 9, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Siblings are finally united!
What is writing and reading in the time of AI?
Ted Chiang, Ken Liu, Sheila Heti, Sasha Stiles, James Yu, and other amazing writers reflect and offer new possibilities.
@uofmpress.bsky.social
What is writing and reading in the time of AI?
Ted Chiang, Ken Liu, Sheila Heti, Sasha Stiles, James Yu, and other amazing writers reflect and offer new possibilities.
@uofmpress.bsky.social