Transcribing 2.5M Hours Of TV News: 4.25M Global Broadcasts Processed Using GCP's Chirp LSM
Two weeks ago we unveiled the first glimpse of our massive collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive to…
Bloomberg: 270,000 Overdose Deaths Thrust Fentanyl Into Heart Of US Presidential Race
An analysis in Bloomberg today includes a look at how television news has covered fentanyl. Read The Full Article.
LMMs & Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro Watching Television News: Using Prompt Recommendations To Expand Our Textual Descriptions
As we continue our experiments in video description using Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro, let's ask Gemini for help in crafting…
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,…
LMMs & Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro Watching Television News: Returning To Second-By-Second Visual Descriptions Through Video & Surrogates
As continue to examine Gemini's video capabilities, let's return to our work on second-by-second visual descriptions using a series of…
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…
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…
More Experiments With Gemini's Video Capabilities: Pushing Beyond The 1 Hour Limit
Stay tuned tomorrow for a first look at pushing Gemini beyond its default one hour input limitation for videos by…
#MeToo Has Largely Faded Away On Television News
The term #MeToo burst into the media in late 2017 , but largely faded from CNN and MSNBC by late…
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…
Why Gemini 1.5 Pro Describes President Biden As "Confused" & "Disoriented" And What It Tells Us About Training Data
One of the more fascinating findings from our experiments with Gemini 1.5 Pro's video capabilities is how strongly it associates…
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…
LMMs & Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro Watching Television News: Visually Summarizing A 30-Minute Evening News Broadcast In One Prompt
As we continue to explore Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro model's native video capabilities, what if we scale our analysis from…
Gemini 1.5 Pro's 1 Million Token Model: Can Prompt Engineering Improve Its "Needle In A Haystack" Performance?
Yesterday we were surprised to discover sharply reduced performance from Gemini 1.5 Pro on our RW-NIAH (Real World Needle In…
Gemini 1.5 Pro's 1 Million Token Model: How Its "Needle In A Haystack" Performance On One Broadcast Collapsed to 0% Accuracy Over The Last 2 Weeks
Two weeks ago we examined Gemini 1.5 Pro's NIAH (Needle In A Haystack) performance, finding that when asked to identify…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How We Transcribed 2.5 Million Hours Of TV News In Just 7 Days & How We Could Have Finished In A Single Afternoon
On Wednesday, we announced in collaboration with the Internet Archive TV News Archive the machine transcription of its complete 2.5…
Transcribing 2.5M Hours Of TV News: What Does A GCP USM Chirp JSON Transcript Look Like?
Yesterday we announced the complete machine transcription of the Internet Archive TV News Archive's complete 2.5 million hours of uncaptioned…
Transcribing The TV News Archive's 2.5-Million-Hour Quarter-Century Archive Of Global Television News
The Internet Archive's Television News Archive today preserves global television news coverage encompassing selections from 108 channels spanning 50 countries…
WashPost: Why A Fox News Pundit May Not Have Heard Bad News About Trump
The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores the parallel media universes of cable television news. Read The Full Article.
Visual Explorer: Stay Tuned For A Massive Announcement This Week
Stay tuned for a truly incredible announcement coming this week.