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Generative AI Autonomous Agent Experiments: Automated VM Health Assessment

As we continue to explore the use of generative AI fully autonomous agents to manage our global fleet of VMs, we've…

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Generative AI Autonomous Agent Experiments: Automated Log Diagnosis & VM Healing – "Martian Source" Error

As we continue to explore the use of generative AI fully autonomous agents managing our global fleet of VMs, around…

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Transcribing 2.5M Hours Of TV News: Comparing Google Translate, GPT-4, Gemini Ultra & Gemini Pro 1.5 For Trilingual Translation

Continuing our comparisons of multilingual machine translation of global television news, how do Google Translate, GPT-4, Gemini Ultra & Gemini Pro…

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Transcribing 2.5M Hours Of TV News: Correcting Mixed Transliterations In LSM Transcription Via LSM+LLM – Comparing GPT-4 & Gemini

Yesterday we explored LLM correction of mixed script/transliterated LSM transcripts. In that experiment we used GPT-4 for our transcript normalization…

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Transcribing 2.5M Hours Of TV News: Correcting Mixed Transliterations In LSM Transcription Via LSM+LLM

Last week we explored how Large Speech Model (LSM) transcriptions can blend script and transliterated text, rendering the resulting transcripts…

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Generative AI Autonomous Agent Experiments: Automated Log Diagnosis & VM Healing – Fix "No Space Left" Error

What might it look like to deploy Generative AI as a form of fully autonomous intelligent agent that monitors cloud…

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Visualizing The Network Structure Of Multilingualism In 2.5 Million Hours Of Global Television News

Yesterday we unveiled a first glimpse at the linguistic landscape of the Internet Archive TV News Archive's 2.5-million-hour uncaptioned global…

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A First Look At The Linguistic Geography Of The Internet Archive's TV News Archive: 2.5M Hours Spanning 159 Languages

We are tremendously excited to unveil today a first look at the linguistic geography of the Internet Archive's TV News…

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Transcribing 2.5M Hours Of TV News: The Complicating Factors Of Transliteration/Romanization In LSM Transcription

Like their textual brethren, the Large Speech Models (LSM) that have become the dominant ASR (speech transcription) technology can be…

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ChatGPT Dimensional Structure Transformation of the Top-Tier Global Cities’ City Brand Influence Before and After the COVID-19 Outbreak: Empirical Study Based on Constructing Assessment Framework of Similarity Network Analysis

This study empirically assessed the dimensional structure transformation of the top-tier global cities’ city brand influence over six years before…

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Transcribing 2.5M Hours Of TV News: Comparing Google Translate, GPT-4, Gemini Ultra & Gemini Pro 1.5 For Translating Mixed-Language Excerpts

Last month we noted an example of a brief Persian excerpt appearing in the midst of a Russian-language broadcast. How…

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Transcribing 2.5M Hours Of TV News: A Fascinating Example Of A Hindi Broadcast With English Commercials

As we continue to explore the vast global landscape that is the multilingualism of global television, here is a fascinating…

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Inflation Coverage Increasing On Business News Channels

Business news channels are steadily ramping up their mentions of inflation, as seen in the timeline below.

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Trump's Media Fortunes Revived: Nearing 2016 Levels On MSNBC & CNN But Not On Fox News

Mentions of Donald Trump on MSNBC and CNN are approaching their 2016 levels, while Fox News mentions remain below their…

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MSNBC Dominates Coverage Of Book Bans On Television News

The timeline below shows mentions of book bans on television news over the past decade, showing MSNBC dominating coverage.

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"Squatting" Is Receiving A Lot Of Attention – On Fox News

Coverage of "squatting" is receiving a surge of attention – on Fox News, as seen in the timeline below.

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OpenAI Has Faded From Television News

While OpenAI remains the standard bearer of the generative AI revolution, it has largely faded from television news, as seen…

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TikTok Is Trending On Television News With Fox News In The Lead

TikTok is surging to near all-time highs in television news coverage again, as seen in the timeline below. Fox News…

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China Slowly Fading On Television News

Despite increasing Congressional emphasis on China, mainstream television news coverage is slowly declining, as seen in the timeline below.

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Economic Uncertainty Approaching Decade Low On Business Channels

Using the Baker, Bloom & Davis "economic uncertainty" metric, economic uncertainty is approaching a decade low across the major business…

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No Major Change In Immigration Coverage Volume From Trump To Biden

Despite Republican emphasis on immigration, television news coverage of it isn't substantially greater than it has been over the course…

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Afghanistan Has All But Disappeared From Television News

As the timeline below shows, mentions of Afghanistan across BBC News, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC have all but disappeared…

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Gaza Back In The News: Brief Burst Of 2023-Level Coverage On TV News

The timeline below shows daily mentions of Israel and Gaza across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, showing how coverage has…

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Ukraine Continues To Fade Away On Television News

The timeline below shows that Ukraine continues to slowly fade away on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News.