WashPost: Violent Crime Continues To Drop — But It's Not Clear How Much
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of violent crime. Read The Full Article.
CJR: The F-Word
A fascinating piece in today's Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) by Aisvarya Chandrasekar and Dhrumil Mehta examines media coverage of Trump…
A Glimpse At The Generative Creative Process: How We Created The GDELT 5.0 Launch Image
Earlier this month we announced the coming launch of GDELT 5.0. In creating the background image for the launch announcement,…
Some Initial Benchmarks Using GCP's BigTable As A Digital Twin & Comparing GCS Vs BigTable For Key Value Stores
As we ramp up the launch of our new digital twin infrastructure, GCP's BigTable is an obvious contender as a…
Generative AI Experiments: Asking Gemini & ChatGPT To Write Sample Python Scripts For GCP's BigTable & The Reality Of Today's Coding Copilots
Imagine you are a new developer who has never used GCP's BigTable before and you are asked to demo how…
AKAS: Mentions Of "A Plan" Vs "A Vision" In Election News Articles
AKAS just released this fascinating pair of infographics charting mentions of "a plan" versus "a vision" in election-related coverage. Read…
WashPost: The Link Between The News Americans Consume And The Things They Believe
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines the connection between news coverage and beliefs. Read The Full Article.
Examining Cable News Coverage Of Caitlin Clark
Caitlin Clark received a burst of attention on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News back in April 2023 and has received…
AKAS: Brexit Mentions Drop In Election News Article
AKAS released this fascinating infographic about the density of Brexit mentions in election-related coverage. Read The Full Post.
Generative AI Experiments: Asking Gemini Ultra To Reformat BigTable's CBT CLI Output Into JSON
GCP has a wealth of data storage offerings, ranging from full-fledged warehouse and database platforms like BigQuery and Spanner to…
ZeroHedge: OpenAI And Political Bias In Silicon Valley
ZeroHedge republished Kalev's RCP article "OpenAI And Political Bias In Silicon Valley". Read The Full Article.
Coming Soon: GDELT 5
We are excited to announce that GDELT 5.0 will be launching this summer. GDELT 5.0 represents a complete reimagining of…
Generative AI Autonomous Agent Experiments: Provide Me A List Of High-Quality URLs About Inode Tables
As we continue our experiments with applying LLMs as copilots alongside human system administrators in diagnosing technical challenges, we wondered…
Generative AI Explorations: Using ChatGPT 4o & Gemini 1.5 Pro To Brainstorm AI Keywords For Searching News Coverage
Imagine you are someone interested in keeping track of the latest AI news from your favorite news search engines. Given…
WashPost: In The Trial, Like The Election, Trump's Base Is Inoculated Against Loss
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of the Trump trial. Read The Full Article.
Generative AI Experiments: The Wildly Different Results Of Gemini 1.5's Classification Of Television News Show Titles
Last week we used Gemini to classify a decade of EPG show titles on a single television news channel as…
OpenAI and Political Bias in Silicon Valley
AI-powered image generators were back in the news earlier this year, this time for their propensity to create historically inaccurate…
Google I/O 2024 Musings: As Models Move From The Lab To Life, Interface Takes Center Stage
As LLMs, LSMs, LMMs and other "Large X Models" continue their transition from laboratory novelties and enterprise tools into the…
Generative AI Experiments: Summarizing A Day Of Global Climate Change Headlines Using GDELT + GPT-4o, Gemini Pro & Gemini Flash
What might it look like to leverage the ever-growing context windows of modern LLMs to take a day of climate…
Stay Tuned: Major Announcement Next Week
Stay tuned for a major announcement coming next week!
Tracking Onscreen Textual Mentions Of The Campus Protests
The timeline below tracks the total seconds of airtime per day since April 1st mentioning protests across BBC News London,…
Google I/O 2024 Musings: The Rise Of Smaller More Responsive Large Language Models
A major theme of both OpenAI's and Google's announcements last week was the pivot from a relentless emphasis on ever…
Generative AI Experiments: Using Gemini To Classify A Decade Of Programming On A Television News Channel Using EPG+LLM
Continuing our series of experiments on using LLMs to classify programming on a television news as news / not news…
Generative AI Experiments: Using Gemini & ChatGPT To Classify A Year Of Russian Television As News/Not News Using Show Titles + Translation
Following yesterday's example of classifying as news / not news an entire year of Russian television on a single channel…