UC Berkeley - InterpretAI Artificial Humanities - First Encounters with AI www.ninabegus.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/ninabegus.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ninabegus.bsky.social/post/3mlrxfdnxnk25This is why I’m starting a new book series Artificial Humanities at the University of Exeter Press. Stay tuned for more soon! [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 May 2026 04:14 +0000at://did:plc:4ecj5x252fmjemctrveyqypv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlrxfdnxnk25https://bsky.app/profile/ninabegus.bsky.social/post/3mlradu7mos2vIn the Argentinian newspaper Clarín this week! I love that the piece on Artificial Humanities begins with Weizenbaum’s ELIZA. This is where it all started for me, and it’s what I’m currently working on - publishing David Avidan’s book of conversations with ELIZA from 1974 as soon as we can :)13 May 2026 21:22 +0000at://did:plc:4ecj5x252fmjemctrveyqypv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlradu7mos2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/ninabegus.bsky.social/post/3mlpak6tygk2yFilming a documentary today, ‘Who’s Afraid of Finnegans Wake’ by Brian Lally, discussing Latent Spacecraft @begus.bsky.social and Artificial Humanities @uofmpress.bsky.social13 May 2026 02:20 +0000at://did:plc:4ecj5x252fmjemctrveyqypv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpak6tygk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/ninabegus.bsky.social/post/3mlmgsxyvxc2cMy book 'Artificial Humanities' was reviewed in AI & Society! The review calls the book “the most sustained and theoretically rigorous account to date” of how humanistic knowledge shapes AI, and describes it as a “timely and foundational work.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03062-111 May 2026 23:34 +0000at://did:plc:4ecj5x252fmjemctrveyqypv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlmgsxyvxc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/ninabegus.bsky.social/post/3mlbsd7cnjc2wTalks from the Cultural AI conference at NYU's Remarque Institute are available online! Mine is about literary approaches that are immediately useful to study AI's cultural aspects. https://youtu.be/uO_GJgNIoWo?t=6886&si=KGF-ANScFfN2Orsq07 May 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:4ecj5x252fmjemctrveyqypv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbsd7cnjc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/ninabegus.bsky.social/post/3ml2umxaxzc2nNo one is surprised. What's more surprising is that robotics research from MIT in the 1990s and 2000s lead to these products. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 May 2026 23:54 +0000at://did:plc:4ecj5x252fmjemctrveyqypv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2umxaxzc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/ninabegus.bsky.social/post/3mksoollgw22dBenchmarks are both technical and cultural thought experiments, often performing minimal literary forms. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.586534401 May 2026 17:46 +0000at://did:plc:4ecj5x252fmjemctrveyqypv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksoollgw22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/ninabegus.bsky.social/post/3mkj6gfitdc2zWhy has Hollywood not adapted Gilgamesh?27 Apr 2026 23:01 +0000at://did:plc:4ecj5x252fmjemctrveyqypv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkj6gfitdc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/ninabegus.bsky.social/post/3mkikesahmc2mExperimental Narratives paper is still going strong, getting new citations every week: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03868-827 Apr 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:4ecj5x252fmjemctrveyqypv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkikesahmc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/ninabegus.bsky.social/post/3mkdjzeuzi22uRecording from the Modes of Reading symposium at UC Berkeley this February. My talk is on Finnegans Wake in the form of a GAN and GPT-2, both trained from scratch on the novel audio and text. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4PTmJrpGbY [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Apr 2026 17:13 +0000at://did:plc:4ecj5x252fmjemctrveyqypv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdjzeuzi22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/ninabegus.bsky.social/post/3mk7usl3aoc2yOn BBC News tonight on tech layoffs and the future with AI youtu.be/NhmKDGPVQj0 https://youtu.be/NhmKDGPVQj024 Apr 2026 06:15 +0000at://did:plc:4ecj5x252fmjemctrveyqypv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk7usl3aoc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/ninabegus.bsky.social/post/3mjwp2bned22pYou can preorder the first one through the press website with 30% off (code UMWEB30) to be delivered on October 20 @uofmpress.bsky.social https://press.umich.edu/Books/F/First-Encounters-with-AI2 [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Apr 2026 14:38 +0000at://did:plc:4ecj5x252fmjemctrveyqypv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwp2bned22phttps://bsky.app/profile/ninabegus.bsky.social/post/3mjxqd6rlps2z- Hey kid, what are you drawing? - A masterpiece.21 Apr 2026 00:34 +0000at://did:plc:4ecj5x252fmjemctrveyqypv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxqd6rlps2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/ninabegus.bsky.social/post/3mjx4gwy24s2fwith @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. https://ls.berkeley.edu/news/what%E2%80%99s-really-happening-inside-ai%E2%80%99s-black-box-berkeley-researchers-have-answers20 Apr 2026 18:38 +0000at://did:plc:4ecj5x252fmjemctrveyqypv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjx4gwy24s2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/ninabegus.bsky.social/post/3mjwp2bned22pYou can preorder the first one through the press website with 30% off (code UMWEB30) to be delivered on October 20 @uofmpress.bsky.social https://press.umich.edu/Books/F/First-Encounters-with-AI2 [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Apr 2026 14:38 +0000at://did:plc:4ecj5x252fmjemctrveyqypv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwp2bned22phttps://bsky.app/profile/ninabegus.bsky.social/post/3mjvjqj3q2s2fExcited 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 AI20 Apr 2026 03:30 +0000at://did:plc:4ecj5x252fmjemctrveyqypv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjvjqj3q2s2f