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Using Digital Twins To Power Self-Monitoring & Self-Healing Infrastructure

Running massive global production systems and pushing the very boundaries of the possible requires bringing together myriad immense, complex and…

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The Complexities Of AI-Driven Analytic Workflows & Creating A Live Digital Twin Of Petabytes Of Video, Metadata & Annotation Files

Like other object-based storage systems, GCS has immensely powerful qualities, including effectively infinite capacity, strong resilience and considerable performance. Any…

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WashPost: Noem's Dog-Killing Isn’t Popular, Though Trump Supporters Are Divided

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

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When Facebook Is the Internet: The Role of Social Media in Ethnic Conflict

This paper investigates whether social media access is associated with increased probability or intensity of ethnic conflict in Myanmar. In…

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A Sampling Of Global Television News Coverage Of The Campus Gaza Protests

Below is a selection of a few clips from Russian and Iranian television news coverage of the campus Gaza protests….

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Generative AI Experiments: Stay Tuned For A Wealth Of Coming Experiments

Stay tuned for a flurry of generative AI experiments coming the next two months as we explore various potential applications,…

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Google I/O 2024: Next Month

If you're at Google I/O 2024 next month in Mountain View, make sure to say hello!

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WashPost: How The Biden Impeachment Push Echoes Trump's Effort To Retain Power

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of the Biden impeachment push. Read The Full Article.

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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.