Last Week: 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
It was an incredible honor to speak last week at the 35th MINDS Conference in Toronto! From the large language…
This Week: AI @ IA : Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Decade Of TV News Archive Research
Kalev will be speaking at this week at the Internet Archive's annual gala on a decade of his collaborations with…
Next Week: Data For Peace 2023: Using Data And AI For Conflict Early Warning And Crisis Prevention
Kalev will be speaking next Monday on the afternoon plenary panel at the Data For Peace 2023 conference on "Using…
Visual Explorer: World War II US War Department Films Selection Transcribed
This past February we unveiled a small collection of US War Department films from World War II in the Visual Explorer's interface…
Coming Soon: 11M Minutes Transcribed Through Google's Chirp
Our massive collaborative initiative to transcribe the entire Internet Archive Television News Archive has reached 11 million minutes of transcribed…
Today: 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
Kalev is speaking today at the 35th MINDS Conference in Toronto! From the large language models at the vanguard of…
ZeroHedge: Media Coverage Of Ukraine War Dwindles
ZeroHedge republishes Kalev's RealClearPolitics article on media coverage of Ukraine. Read The Full Article.
Media Coverage of Ukraine War Dwindles
As the Russia-Ukraine war grinds on more than a year and a half after the initial invasion, U.S. economic and…
Generative AI Experiments: At-Scale TV News Summarization Experiments Coming Soon
Yesterday we explored summarizing an entire day of Russian television news using Google's new 32K PaLM LLM model. Stay tuned…
Generative AI Experiments: Using LLMs To Summarize Any SRT Closed Captioning File Using GCP's 32K PaLM Model
The SRT closed captioning format is a wide-used file format for storing the machine-readable closed captioning transcripts of videos. A…
Summarizing An Entire Day Of Russian TV News Using Google's New 32K PaLM LLM Model
Last month we demonstrated the use of Google's new 32K PaLM LLM to summarize entire evening news and CSPAN broadcasts…
35th MINDS Conference Toronto This Week
A reminder that Kalev will be speaking at the 35th MINDS Conference in Toronto this week. Learn More.
Next Week: AI @ IA : Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Decade Of TV News Archive Research
Kalev will be speaking at next week at the Internet Archive's annual gala on a decade of his collaborations with…
Recession Coverage Remains Steady On TV News, Declining In Online News
The timeline below shows mentions of a recession spiking during the early pandemic shutdowns, then again in February of last…
How Is Nagorno-Karabakh Being Covered On Television News?
The timeline below shows the total seconds of airtime over the past two weeks in which Nagorno-Karabakh has been mentioned…
How Is The Murder Of Hardeep Singh Nijjar Being Covered In The News?
How are the story of Hardeep Singh Nijjar's murder and Canada's accusations being covered in the news? The timeline below…
Large-Token LLMs: Combining GCP's New 32K PaLM Model + ChatGPT To Reword Summaries For Different Audiences
Enterprise production applications of LLMs must often balance the critical tradeoffs between quality and cost. Token costs for the most…
Large-Token LLMs: Using GCP's New 32K PaLM Model To Summarize Two CSPAN Broadcasts
Earlier this month we explored using Google's new 32K PaLM LLM model to summarize an entire evening news broadcast. Let's…
Hallucinating Detail In Simple Summaries: Why LLM "Grounding" Doesn't Work To Combat Hallucination
One of the most commonly recommended methods of reducing hallucination in LLMs is called "grounding" in which the LLM is…
Deep Linking Democracy: An Index Of Half A Million Legislative Mentions On CSPAN Spanning 2009-2023
Today in collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we are immensely excited to announce a massive new index…
Visual Explorer: Live Transcription Of All 24 Active Uncaptioned Channels Through Google's Chirp
Last week we announced a massive historical backfile of 9.5 million minutes of machine-generated multilingual transcripts of global television news…
Experiments In Summarizing Global Media Tenor: Views Towards China – Part 2
Continuing our experiments with using LLMs to summarize global media coverage, let's use the final workflow that yielded the best…
Experiments In Summarizing Global Media Tenor: Views Towards China – Part 1
How might we use LLMs to summarize at-scale media tone and portrayals of countries? Let's look at a few different…
Tracing Global Media Tone & Anxiety Towards China & Ukraine 2020-Present
Using the GKG, what might we be able to learn about global media tone towards China and Ukraine? Let's first…