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Merkur: In The Ukraine War, Women Are At The Forefront – But Still Not In The Headlines

Merkur publishes a German-language version of a Foreign Policy article by Luba Kassova and Xanthe Scharff on the role of…

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Multimodal Generative AI Experiments: GPT-4 Vs Gemini Pro Vision Describing TV News, Images & Ukraine War Maps

The era of text-only Large Language Models (LLMs) is increasingly giving way to Large Multimodal Models (LMMs): both OpenAI's GPT-4…

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EUobserver: How Ukrainian Women's Stories Became Forgotten By The Media

A fascinating article in EUobserver today by Luba Kassova examines how the story of the Ukraine invasion is being told…

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How Often Does Television News Refer To "Men" Versus "Women?"

How often does television news refer to "men" versus "women?" The timeline below shows total mentions of the phrase "women and children"…

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Independent: Never Underestimate The Value, Resilience And Determination Of Ukrainian Women

An article today in The Independent references the gender breakdown of media coverage of Ukraine. Read The Full Article.

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Foreign Policy: Ukrainian Women On The Front Lines But Not In The Headlines

This fascinating article in today's Foreign Policy by Luba Kassova explores coverage of women in coverage of the invasion of…

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More Experiments In LLM Filtering Of TV News Shows: Adding More Detail Doesn't Improve Consistency Or Accuracy

Continuing our experiments in using SOTA foundation model LLMs to categorize television news shows into "news" and "not news", earlier…

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What Using LLMs To Filter Television News EPG Show Names For "News/Not News" Teaches Us About The Severe Limits Of GenAI

One of the most basic and mind-numbing tasks in analyzing global television news coverage involves cataloging each broadcast show as…

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LMMs & Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro Watching Television News: Converting Videos To Text For Universal RAG & Summarization

Over the past week we've been exploring Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro model's native video support through a series of experiments,…

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LMMs & Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro Watching Television News: Boosting Gemini To 2.5 Hours Of Video + Summarization

Yesterday we explored boosting Gemini's video capabilities from its native one hour to 2.5 hours by overriding its sampling process…

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LMMs & Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro Watching Television News: Overriding Gemini's Sampling To Extend Its Context Window To 2.5 Hours

Google's new Gemini 1.5 Pro LMM model accepts videos up to one hour in length and internally samples them into…

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LMMs & Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro Watching Television News: Using Image Surrogates To Summarize A Russian TV News Clip Into Stories

Yesterday we demonstrated how Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro's video analysis capabilities make it possible to take a 6 minute clip…

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LMMs & Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro Watching Television News: Visually Summarizing A Russian TV News Clip Into Stories

As we continue to explore Gemini 1.5 Pro's video analysis capabilities, we've examined a number of different prompt approaches to…

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Early Findings With Gender, Racial & Cultural Bias In Generative AI Embeddings, Models & Guardrails

As we continue to explore how various generative AI offerings from different companies perform across global news coverage, one area…

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LMMs & Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro Watching Television News: Summarizing A Video Second-By-Second With Keywords & Descriptions

As we continue our experiments with having Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro model visually analyze a 6-minute video clip from Russian…

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LMMs & Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro Watching Television News: The Instability Of Summarizing Video

Yesterday we explored Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro model's video analysis capabilities by asking it to analyze a 6-minute clip of…

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LMMs & Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro Watching Television News: First Results From Watching A Russian TV News Clip

One of the most powerful capabilities of Google's new Large Multimodal Model (LMM) Gemini 1.5 Pro model is its ability…

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Gemini 1.5 Pro's 1 Million Token Model: Summarizing In A Single Prompt A Full Week Of A Russian Television News Channel

Earlier today we leveraged the million-token context window of Google's new Gemini 1.5 Pro foundation model to summarize an entire…

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Multimodal Generative AI Experiments: How Two Of Gemini Pro Vision's Hallucinations & Fabrications Vanished In 48 Hours

One of the most remarkable aspects of generative AI models including Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs)…

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Multimodal Generative AI Experiments: Evaluating Emotional Responses To Images By Different Countries & Cultures Through GPT-4 & Gemini Pro Vision

The majority of descriptive computer vision applications range from taxonomic categorization and OCR to rich textual captioning and Q&A. Yet,…

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Generative Image AI: Branding & Representation Lessons From Creating Nearly 500 DALL-E Images For Autonomous Storytelling & Promotional Campaigns

Over the past week and a half we've been exploring the potential of generative AI image creation tools like DALL-E…

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Multimodal Generative AI Experiments: Gemini Pro + Bard & Describing YouTube Videos

Last month Google announced YouTube integration for Bard in which it can now retrieve transcripts and metadata about any video…

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Summarizing Global Reaction To Gaza With DOC 2.0 API + LLM: Major News Story Headline Summarization

Earlier this year we explored how the DOC 2.0 API could be used to search for coverage of a specific…

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Introducing Television News Monitoring For All: A New Pipeline For Instant Monitoring Of Breaking Global Events

The Internet Archive's Television News Archive encompasses over 9.5 million broadcasts totaling 6.6 million hours of airtime from 108 television…