Author: Kalev Leetaru
The Turkish Earthquake At Six Months
How much attention is the Turkish earthquake still receiving after six months? The timeline below shows total daily spoken mentions…
LLM Infinite Loops In LLM Entity Extraction: When Temperature & Basic Prompt Engineering Can't Fix Things
Earlier today we explored how LLMs can enter an infinite loop state with certain inputs when asked to perform extractive…
LLM Entity Extraction Vs LLM Embeddings: Discontinuous Failure Points Vs Smooth Responsiveness
Over the past two days we've explored how small changes of a few words in the input text to an…
WashPost: So Where's The Bribe, James Comer?
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines how television news has covered allegations of bribery against Biden. Read The Full Article.
Covid Continues To Fade Away On The News
The timeline below shows spoken mentions of the pandemic across BBC News London, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, showing no…
LLM Infinite Loops & Failure Modes: The Current State Of LLM Entity Extraction
Yesterday we demonstrated how when using LLMs for entity extraction, the addition of a single apostrophe to a source text…
The Trajectory Of Wuhan Mentions On Television News Over The Pandemic
The timeline below shows spoken mentions of Wuhan across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News over the course of the pandemic,…
Experiments In Entity Extraction Using LLMs: Hallucination & How A Single Apostrophe Can Change The Results
Last month we explored LLM-based entity extraction, with mixed results. In theory, LLMs should offer vastly superior entity identification, segmentation…
Authoritative Human Vs NMT/LLM Translation & Embedding-Based Quality Rankings: NMT Skew
One of the more intriguing findings from our NMT vs LLM translation experiments has been the degree to which NMT…
LLM Translation Instability & Embedding-Based Ranking Of LLM & NMT Machine Translation: Part 2
Following in our series of LLM translation experiments and embedding-based quality rankings, let's look at another example of a Chinese…
Using Embedding Models To Rank LLM & NMT Machine Translations Of Chinese News & Social Posts By Quality
Last week we continued our explorations of LLMs as replacements for classical NMT for machine translation. A key challenge of…
Gender & Race In ChatGPT's CEO Stories & How Embedding Models Rank White Male CEOs First And Women Last
Yesterday we explored how LLM-based embedding models can encode severe gender and racial bias. Earlier this past week we explored…
Harnessing The Web And Knowledge Graphs For Automated Impact Investing Scoring
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were introduced by the United Nations in order to encourage policies and activities that help…
WashPost: The Week's Diverging News Realities, Depending On Your Cable Channel
The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks at the diverging media landscapes of television news. Read The Full Article.
The Severe Gender & Racial Bias In Embedding Search And The Dangers As Semantic Search Replaces Keyword Search
Earlier this week we explored how strongly gender bias is encoded into commercial LLMs and how when asked to generate…
Are Terms Like "Nazis" And "Biden Regime" Trending On Fox News?
CNN yesterday raised the question of whether the conservative press is mainstreaming the use of terms like "Nazis" and "Biden…
The Barbie Movie & How The Term "Patriarchy" Has Been Covered On Television News
CNN proclaimed today that the new Barbie movie had led to "everyone talking about" patriarchy. To what degree is this…
More Experiments Using LLMs For Machine Translation: Stability Of ChatGPT Translations Of Chinese-Language News & Social Content
We've previously demonstrated the ability of LLMs to provide highly fluent translations that exceed the fluency and "naturalness" of classical…
On The Feasibility Of Predicting Volumes Of Fake News – The Spanish Case
The growing amount of news shared on the Internet makes it hard to verify them in real-time. Malicious actors take…
Doctors, Programmers & CEOs Are Successful Men, Women Are Supportive Beautiful Models & LGBTQ Doesn't Exist: How LLMs Are Undoing All Our Gender Anti-Bias Work In AI
In recent years, the recognition of gender bias in AI has finally swept across the AI landscape, with researchers and…
The Problem With The 'Bidenomics' Sales Pitch
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of Bidenomics. Read The Full Article.
Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) Executive Academy
Kalev spoke today Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) Executive Academy's MBA Finance and MBA Digital Transformation & Data…
Recessionary Mentions Remain Elevated On Television News
Mentions of a potential recession remain elevated across television news, as seen in the timeline below. Unsurprisingly, business channels have…
Vivek Ramaswamy Mentions Surge On TV News
Mentions of 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy have surged in the past month across television news, with Fox News picking…