GaŠper BeguŠ
I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley, where I’m also affiliated with the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences. I work on interpretable AI and language in humans, animals, and machines.
In my research, I use human, animal, and machine intelligence to understand the inner workings of AI and to better understand what language is and how it is learned.
I am the PI of Berkeley Speech and Computation lab, where we are building the most realistic models of human language learning. In other words, we're creating artificial baby language learners.
I am a Linguistics Lead at Project CETI, a non-profit dedicated to listening sperm whales.
I connect AI interpretability insights with the industry through InterpretAI.
I serve as the College Principal of Bowles Hall, the oldest residential college in the US and only one at UC Berkeley.
Updates
A call for Assistant/Associate Project Scientist to work on AI and whales at UC Berkeley is now out: Apply here.
I gave a talk at the Centre Pompidou on July 10, 2024.
I gave a talk at the NSF workshop New Horizons in Langauge Science. Video here.
Our research featured in the Quanta Magazine.
Latest research
My keynote on AI interpretability for discovery and insights into various data types at the 2024 FinTech Conference “Living Large: The Latest on AI in Finance, NY Stern School of Business
Industry talks
Fireside chat on the future of AI & Industry at the Haas Business school:
Understanding AI: Humanities x Social Sciences x Technology
Substack
Contact
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Linguistics
1203 Dwinelle Hall #2650
Berkeley, CA 94720-2650
Email: begus@berkeley.edu