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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…

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More Experiments With LLM Translation: GCP's PaLM Vs ChatGPT Vs Google Translate On News Translation

With the General Availability of Chinese language support in Google's PaLM LLM, let's repeat our full-length news media translation experiments, comparing…

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More Experiments With LLM Translation: GCP's PaLM Vs ChatGPT Vs Google Translate On Social Media Translation

With the General Availability of Chinese language support in Google's PaLM LLM, let's repeat our Weibo social media post translation experiments,…

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WashPost: Be Glad You're Not In Charge Of Raising Money For Ron DeSantis

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of DeSantis. Read The Full Article.

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More Experiments With LLM Translation: GCP's PaLM On Government Translation

With the General Availability of Chinese language support in Google's PaLM LLM, let's repeat our earlier tests of LLM-based translation…

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RCP: Generative AI Is More Mad Lib Than HAL9000

A quiet revolution has been occurring in artificial intelligence. Whereas in the past, AI was limited to analyzing information that…

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Experiments With GCP's Chirp: An Example Of Multilingual Transcription

Television news across the world frequently contains excerpts of languages other than the dominate language of the broadcast, either through…

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More Experiments Visually Describing TV News Using Google's Imagen Generative AI Image Captioning

Earlier this month we examined Imagen on Vertex AI, Google's new image-based generative AI foundational model for images, applying it to…

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The Challenges Of LLM-Powered Code Generators: Early Observations From The Trenches

A growing body of research is beginning to call into question the quality of LLM-generated code, even as the tech…

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Major New Chirp Demo Coming Soon

Stay tuned for a massive new demo of Chirp applied to the Visual Explorer!

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Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Has Faded In The Media

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) rocketed into the media limelight in January 2019, peaking in March of that year and remaining…

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Getting Started With GCP's Chirp / Universal Speech Model (USM) Multilingual Speech Transcription: Transcribing A 2.5 Hour Russian Broadcast In 4 Minutes

How can you leverage GCP's powerful Universal Speech Model (USM) known as "Chirp" for multilingual speech transcription? USM is a "family…

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CEPR: Black Tulips And The Russian War In Ukraine

A look at protests and coverage of casualties in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Read The Full Article.

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Slator: Meta Debuts SeamlessM4T, The Swiss Army Knife Of Translation Models

Slator referenced our analyses of Meta's new SeamlessM4T model in their coverage of its release. Read The Full Article.

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Experiments With Speech Transcription & Translation: Meta's SeamlessM4T Vs OpenAI's Whisper Vs GCP's STT+GT Vs GCP's USM/Chirp+GT

As the final piece in our our series of evaluating Meta's new SeamlessM4T multimodal translation model, let's evaluate its speech transcription and…