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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 12h

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 7d

Somehow forgot to mention we also got a grant to study cultural latent spaces in collaboration with French scholars Antonio Somaini and Alexandre Gefen. We’ll make sure to advertise the many public events - the exhibition, the panel, the volume - in the next two years!

Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to learn that @hannesbajohr.de and I got the Peder Sather grant to study AI and narration in collaboration with The Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, led by Jill Walker Rettberg. Our goal is to bridge humanities and CS approaches to AI and narration.

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to learn that @hannesbajohr.de and I got the Peder Sather grant to study AI and narration in collaboration with The Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, led by Jill Walker Rettberg. Our goal is to bridge humanities and CS approaches to AI and narration.

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 1d

A PhD position in Stockholm addressing one of the biggest challenges in today’s technology are AI’s energy demands.

Center for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 2d

Open PhD position at KTH: "AI Planetary Futures: Climate and environment in Silicon Valley's AI paradigm". Apply by Oct 23! lnkd.in/dCs8eZjb

The project analyzes the climate and environmental aspects of Silicon Valley-based general-purpose AI systems developed by Big Tech companies.

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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 2d

it’s delightful to be receiving this book when i’m wrestling with another essay about close reading because opening to virtually any page of this book and reading some or all of is a guaranteed win, clarifying and inspiring!

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 3d

Preorder:

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Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 3d

AI is reaching the level of complexity where quantitative evaluations are often not feasible anymore.

The Artificial Humanities book outlines how humanistic methodology can be used to approach and evaluate AI today.

The decade of the humanities is here!

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 3d

Landing in… Bergen. Maybe. Probably.

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 7d

Please do get in touch if you work on this topic 🤿

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 7d

Somehow forgot to mention we also got a grant to study cultural latent spaces in collaboration with French scholars Antonio Somaini and Alexandre Gefen. We’ll make sure to advertise the many public events - the exhibition, the panel, the volume - in the next two years!

Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to learn that @hannesbajohr.de and I got the Peder Sather grant to study AI and narration in collaboration with The Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, led by Jill Walker Rettberg. Our goal is to bridge humanities and CS approaches to AI and narration.

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 7d

Stay tuned for a lexicon of narrative terms relevant to AI, workshops on AI narrativity at UC Berkeley and at a CS conference, and upcoming papers coming from this collaboration 🚀

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to learn that @hannesbajohr.de and I got the Peder Sather grant to study AI and narration in collaboration with The Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, led by Jill Walker Rettberg. Our goal is to bridge humanities and CS approaches to AI and narration.

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 13d

My avid reader, at almost 10 years-old: “Big boring book.”

They’ve pretty much grown together!

Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 14d

10 years after the initial idea, Artificial Humanities is here! Thanks so much to all who have preordered it. I hope you enjoy reading it and find this research approach as generative as I do. More to come!

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 8d

Ready for the mahjong craze

Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 9d

Good morning in chimpanzee

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 14d

10 years after the initial idea, Artificial Humanities is here! Thanks so much to all who have preordered it. I hope you enjoy reading it and find this research approach as generative as I do. More to come!

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 10d

A rough schedule of upcoming events. Not too tight, would be happy to add more

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 10d

Yes, either multimodal or strictly non-linguistic approaches: visualization of latent spaces, activation atlas, probing the inner layers mathematically, sonic and robotic (embodied) interaction, physiological comparison with neuro and tech - We have a paper coming out soon on the latter + speech

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 11d

... the Chinese Room (John Searle, 1980), Mary’s Room (Frank Jackson, 1982), Winograd Schema Challenge (Hector J. Levesque, 2011), Story Cloze Test (Allen Institute, 2016), among others.
They are minimal literary forms used as a yardstick for intelligence.
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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 11d

The history of AI evaluation is full of thought experiments grounded in language:
the Turing test (Turing, 1950), the Wug Test (Gleason, 1958), the General Problem Solver (Newell & Simon, 1959), the Frame Problem (McCarthy & Hayes, 1969), Scripts (Schank & Abelson, 1977), the Chinese Room...
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University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social · 11d

Pre-order Nina's book here: press.umich.edu/Books/A/Arti...

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 13d

My avid reader, at almost 10 years-old: “Big boring book.”

They’ve pretty much grown together!

Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 14d

10 years after the initial idea, Artificial Humanities is here! Thanks so much to all who have preordered it. I hope you enjoy reading it and find this research approach as generative as I do. More to come!

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 13d

Farah, come eastside to Bowles for lunch whenever you’re free!

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 14d

10 years after the initial idea, Artificial Humanities is here! Thanks so much to all who have preordered it. I hope you enjoy reading it and find this research approach as generative as I do. More to come!

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