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Transcribing 9.5M Minutes Of Global Television News Through Google's Chirp

The TV News Visual Explorer encompasses selections of television news from 108 channels spanning 50 countries and territories in 35 languages…

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The Perils Of LLMs For Translation Tasks On Lower-Resource Languages: Estonian Noun Declension

One of the great promises of large language models (LLMs) is their ability to revolutionize translation and linguistic tasks. A…

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Google's Chirp & Truly Multilingual Global Speech Transcription: An Example Of Three Languages In 60 Seconds

Google's new Universal Speech Model called Chirp is a large speech model speech transcription system that offers state-of-the-art speech transcription…

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Coming Soon: 6.6M Minutes Transcribed Through Google's Chirp

Our forthcoming Chirp ASR demo has reached 6.6 million minutes (110,000 hours) of global television news!

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Temporal Relationship Between Daily Reports Of COVID-19 Infections And Related GDELT And Tweet Mentions

Social media platforms are valuable data sources in the study of public reactions to events such as natural disasters and…

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The Rich Multilingual World Of Global Television News: New Possibilities For Understanding Codeswitching In News

For those accustomed to the monolingual English-only broadcasts of the United States, it can be nearly impossible to imagine the…

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More Multilingual Transcription With GCP's Chirp: An Arabic-English South Sudan Broadcast

While GCP's new Chirp ASR model does not officially support multilingual audio content, it has proven highly adept at correctly…

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Coming Soon: 2M Minutes Transcribed Through Google's Chirp

Our forthcoming Chirp ASR demo has reached 2 million minutes of global television news!

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Tucker Carlson Still Making Appearances On Russian Television

Despite having left Fox News months ago, Tucker Carlson is still appearing in excerpts on Russian television news, such as…

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A Vision For The Future Of LLM Trust & Safety: From Consumer Toy To Behavioral Enterprise Guardrails

Amongst the myriad challenges involved in deploying LLMs in the enterprise, perhaps the least appreciated is the impact of consumer-centric…

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Coming Soon: 1.1M Minutes Transcribed Through Google's Chirp

Stay tuned for a forthcoming major announcement regarding more than 1.1 million minutes of global television news transcribed through Google's…

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Large-Token LLMs: Using GCP's New 32K PaLM Models To Summarize An Entire ABC Evening News TV News Broadcast In A Single Prompt

This past July we demonstrated the use of Anthropic's Claude 2's 100K token LLM to summarize an entire evening news…

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Large-Token LLMs: Leveraging GCP PaLM 2's 32K Token Limit To Summarize An Entire Episode Of Russia's 60 Minutes – Part 2

Earlier today we examined how GCP's new 32K token models summarize a Russian television news broadcast, finding heavy hallucination and…

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Large-Token LLMs: Leveraging GCP PaLM 2's 32K Token Limit To Summarize An Entire Episode Of Russia's 60 Minutes

This past July we explored how large-token LLMs like Anthropic's Claude 2 can be used to summarize large texts. With…

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WashPost: The Media-Elite Narrative About Hunter Biden Sits On The Right

The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores how the media is covering the Hunter Biden story. Read The Full Article.

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Creating A Daily Disease Summarizer Using The DOC 2.0 API + PaLM/ChatGPT

Yesterday we explored different workflows for using the DOC 2.0 API to track global disease outbreaks using LLMs to summarize…

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How Tucker Carlson Is Being Covered On TV News

The timeline below shows that Tucker Carlson has all but disappeared on Fox News and that even CNN and MSNBC…

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DOC 2.0 API + PaLM/ChatGPT = Weekly Disease Summarization: Single Or Three-Part Prompts?

Following on our experiments with combining the DOC 2.0 API and LLMs like PaLM or ChatGPT to summarize global headlines,…

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Discrimination, Bias & Western Utopia In LLM-Based Machine Translation

Yesterday we explored how LLM-based machine translation poses novel challenges to translation workflows, encoding a set of "Western values" that…

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When Machine Translation Begins To Encode "Values": LLMs, Editorialization & Guardrails

For the long history of machine translation, from rules-based to SMT to NMT, translation systems were designed to be neutral…

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More Experiments With DOC 2.0 API + LLMs = Summarizing Headlines: Turkish Investment, Inflation & The Niger Coup

Last month we explored using ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) to summarize search results from the DOC 2.0 API for at-scale landscape summarization…

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35th MINDS Conference Toronto: The Promise & Perils Of AI For Journalism: Lessons Learned From A Quarter-Century Of Using AI To Catalog The Planet Through News

We're tremendously excited to announce that Kalev will be speaking at the 35th MINDS Conference in Toronto next month! From…

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More Experiments With LLM Translation: GCP's PaLM Vs ChatGPT For Headline Translation

Continuing our LLM translation experiments, let's compare PaLM to ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) for news headline translation in which the majority of…

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More Experiments With LLM Translation: Translation Stability In GCP's PaLM Vs ChatGPT

Continuing our series evaluating LLM translation capabilities, we'll have PaLM and ChatGPT translate two paragraphs from a Chinese language news…