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Gemini 1.5 Pro's 1 Million Token Model: Summarizing Half A Day Of A Russian Television News Channel

With the release of Google's new Gemini 1.5 Pro model, for the first time we have a publicly accessible production-grade…

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Gemini 1.5 Pro's 1 Million Token Model: Summarizing An Evening News Broadcast

Last July we explored the ability of Anthropic's Claude 2 model and its then-novel 100,000 token limit to summarize an…

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Gender & Race In LMMs: How GPT-4 & Gemini 1.5 Pro Describe Doctors & CEOs

This past October we did a deep dive into multimodal image embedding models and the racial and gender biases they…

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Generative AI Experiments: Comparing GPT-4 & Gemini 1.5 Pro For Visually Describing Television News Broadcast Frames

How do two of the largest LMM models, GPT-4 and Gemini 1.5 Pro, compare in describing a set of still…

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The Brittleness Of LMM Computer Vision Models: Gemini 1.5 Pro's Hallucinated Descriptions Of Imagen 2 Images

Despite their seemingly human-like ability to understand and textually describe images, Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) like GPT-4 and Gemini 1.5…

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Generative AI Experiments: Using GPT-4 And Gemini 1.5 Pro To Analyze Another DALL-E Image

Continuing our experiments on LMM textual descriptions of generative AI imagery, let's test how GPT-4 and Gemini 1.5 Pro describe…

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The Dangers Of Image GenAI: Both GPT-4 & Gemini 1.5 Pro Thought An Imagen 2 Image Was A Real Photograph

Continuing our experiments from yesterday on LMM textual descriptions of generative AI imagery, let's test how GPT-4 and Gemini 1.5…

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Generative AI Experiments: Using GPT-4 And Gemini 1.5 Pro To Analyze A DALL-E Image

Last week we used DALL-E to visualize a "television news archive". Let's explore how two leading LMM's, GPT-4 and Gemini…

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WashPost: Which Came First, The Biden Age Concerns Or The Coverage Of Them?

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of age concerns about President Biden. Read The Full Article.

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Generative AI Experiments: "Where Is This Image" & The Critical Importance Of Tuning Models Against Over-Confidence

From their text-only roots as LLMs (Large Language Models), most major GenAI vendors now offer LMM (Large Multimodal Model) APIs…

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Generative AI Experiments: Using GPT-4 And Gemini 1.5 Pro To Analyze Imagen 2 Images

With the public availability of Gemini 1.5 Pro, let's compare how two major LMM's (GPT-4 and Gemini 1.5 Pro) describe…

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Tracking Attention About COVID-19 Vaccines On Twitter And Newspapers: A Dynamic Agenda-Setting Approach

This study delves into the intricate dynamics of agenda-setting between Twitter and elite news media concerning COVID-19 vaccines. A comprehensive…

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How Has Valentine's Day Been Covered On Television News Over The Past Decade?

How has Valentine's Day been covered on television news over the past decade? As the timeline below captures, mentions have…

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Visual Explorer: Another 30 Million Minutes Transcribed Through Google's Chirp Transcription Model

Our massive collaborative initiative to transcribe the entire Internet Archive Television News Archive added another 30 million minutes of transcribed broadcasts…

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Generative AI Experiments: More Experiments In Image Describing Coming Soon

Given the rapid advances in Large Multimodal Modal (LMM) models, stay tuned for a forthcoming series revisiting how far these…

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AKAS: International Court Of Justice Media Coverage

AKAS released this chart tracking global media mentions of the International Court Of Justice (ICJ) via their iiiTracker (International Institutions…

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Generative AI Experiments: Debugging A Networking Issue With GenAI Copilots Vs Stack Overflow & GitHub

Recently, we were forced to diagnose and address an extremely specialized edge case networking issue with a third party utility…

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Generative AI Experiments: GenAI Coding Copilots: Asking GPT-4 & Gemini Ultra To Help Brainstorm A Trivial Video Quality Filter

The wonderful world of digital video is a vast, complex, nuanced and often arcane landscape of containers, formats, codecs, bitrate,…

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Generative AI Experiments: GenAI Coding Copilots: More Networking Code Troubles

As we continue to evaluate the capabilities of advanced Generative AI coding copilots, we find that they offer reasonable performance…

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AI In Production: A Deep Dive Into The Costs Of Multimodal Embedding Search Over 3 Billion Images

As we continue our behind-the-scenes series looking at AI technologies in real world production use cases, we've been estimating the…

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Behind The Scenes: Building Resilient Infrastructure Through Hard Timeouts

One of the quickest lessons developers learn building true global-scale production applications is how quickly systems break down under extreme…

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Generative Image AI: Asking DALL-E To Visualize A "Television News Archive"

Continuing our generative image AI series, we decided to ask DALL-E just what a "television news archive" looks like. Here…

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Experiments With Speech Transcription: Classical Versus LSM Speech Transcription – An English Accent Example

Here is a fascinating brief example of just how much of an improvement Large Speech Models (LSMs) offer over classical…

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Generative AI Experiments: Using Large Language Models To Correct Large Speech Model Transcripts

Large Speech Models (LSMs) offer massive accuracy gains over previous generation ASR systems, but like all automated systems are far…