Divine Embeddings in The Fool

Divine Embeddings in The Fool

A cosy night with an occult talk, discussion and drinks in Berlin’s cosiest esoteric venue. This will be an extended version of the talk for the Occulture Conference 2023.

THE GARLAND OF LETTERS: SACRED ALPHABETS AND AI LANGUAGE MODELS
Karin Valis
From Lord Shiva’s Tandava to the multidimensional vector space of Word Embeddings used in the state-of-the-art generative AI models, the divine essence of language unravels. The dance of creation continues, inside the boney rigs of A100 industrial-grade GPUs into realms we are just beginning to imagine.

In this talk, we first look at the parallels between Sanskrit and Ancient Hebrew and the belief they are the basic building blocks of the universe. Then we try to conceptualise the creation process as a mixing of primal energies in multidimensional coordinate systems, and at the end, we look at the problem of word embeddings used to encode language in large language models such as GPT. What parallels can we find between the naming magick, sacred alphabets and computational intelligence?

The capacity of the venue is very limited, so please rsvp here: https://forms.gle/99cfQB2KLmE5khjJ6