Gasper Begus
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
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- Reposted by Gasper BegusWe're excited to welcome @begus.bsky.social as a keynote speaker for IC2S2 2026!
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- AI is creating a new kind of space, the latent space. We pair art and internal interpretability techniques to explore philosophical implications of these new spaces. FinneGAN generates speech, based on the text of the novel, and pushes the language of Finnegans Wake toward the
- UC Merced has a fabulous cognitive science department. It was a pleasure giving a talk on defining language as “informative imitation” there.
- How can AI interpretability help us make new discoveries in science? I had an awesome time at OpenAI yesterday giving a talk and a fireside chat with Kevin Weil. . I outlined three use cases how AI can help push science forward:
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- A lunch talk at Berkeley Law tomorrow!
- A lunch talk at Berkeley Law tomorrow!
- I had an awesome conversation with Yascha Mounk. We talked about how our perspective on language, animals, consciousness, AI is changing. Have a listen: www.persuasion.community/p/gasper-begus
- Registrations for this talk at OpenAI are available here: forum.openai.com/home/events/...
- Register here: forum.openai.com/home/events/...
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- Reposted by Gasper BegusToday, together with The National Geographic Society, we launch Listen to the Whales — a global invitation to explore the rich communal lives of sperm whales and discover why deciphering their world matters. Take the plunge and immerse yourself in the journey: Projectceti.org/listen
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- AI interpretability can accelerate scientific discovery! We've demonstrated that in our recent paper on whale vowels. Excited to share that I'll be talking about AI interpretability and how it can change our perspective on language in humans, animals, and machines at OpenAI Forum fireside chat.
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- Starting the year in Dutch and Belgian news @devolkskrant.bsky.social @demorgen.be
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- We had a whale of a year. 🐋 This year we continued researching what counts as language and intelligence -- in humans, animals, and machines. A few highlights: – We uncovered vowels and diphthongs in sperm whales, with consequences that reach all the way to law and animal rights
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- Reposted by Gasper Begus“Imagine if we truly understand complex whale communication & can extend our term ‘language’ to them. Such breakthroughs would not only rewrite biology textbooks but also fundamentally redefine what it means to be human & pave the way to instituting new protections for whales, the ocean & beyond”🧪
- Mind-blowingly cool use of AI “Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
- Reposted by Gasper BegusIf you speak whale, you may know that sperm whales communicate with click vocalizations that they group into units called codas. A new study in @openmindjournal.bsky.social shows that within these codas appear to be vowels & diphthongs, used similarly to humans: direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
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- Reposted by Gasper BegusThank you @discovermag.bsky.social and Avery Hurt for delving into CETI’s recent publication, “Vowel- and Diphthong-Like Spectral Patterns in Sperm Whale Codas,” by: @begus.bsky.social, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva & Shane Gero. Read the article here: bit.ly/3MKqR45 📷: Amanda Cotton
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- The new results show a steady “chipping away” at properties that had been regarded as the exclusive domain of human language, Beguš said. “It appears that we’re less unique than we previously thought we were.” www.wired.com/story/in-a-f...
- Reposted by Gasper BegusIf language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities? www.wired.com/story/in-a-f...
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