Journalism is challenged by digitalisation and social media, resulting in lower subscription numbers and reduced advertising income. Information and communication techniques (ICT) offer new opportunities. Our research group is collaborating with a software developer of news production tools for the international market to explore how social, open, and other data sources can be leveraged for journalistic purposes. We have developed an architecture and prototype called News Hunter that uses knowledge graphs, natural-language processing (NLP), and machine learning (ML) together to support journalists. Our focus is on combining existing data sources and computation and storage techniques into a flexible architecture for news journalism. The paper presents News Hunter along with plans and possibilities for future work. Read More
#nlp, #news-summarizationDaily Archives: June 10, 2022
AMD’s latest APU could revolutionize supercomputers
AMD has confirmed that a next-gen CDNA 4 multi-chip and multi-IP Instinct accelerator is currently in development and scheduled to launch by 2023, known as the Instinct MI300 GPU. Technically speaking, this is actually an APU that will combine the next-generation of CDNA 3 cores with the next-generation Zen 4 CPU cores.
That’s right – this chip combines CPU and GPU cores onto a single package for data centers and AI, and the anticipated performance boost is allegedly monstrous.
The Instinct MI300 accelerator has a unified memory APU architecture and new Math Formats to provide 5x performance-per-watt improvement over CDNA 2, as well as an 8x projected improvement in AI training performance versus its spiritual predecessor, the MI250X. … Read More
DeepMind’s Ithaca: Humans and AI combine to rediscover the past
In March 2022 DeepMind, an artificial intelligence company, announced it had developed Ithaca, a deep neural network trained to restore and attribute ancient Greek inscriptions.
Ancient Greek inscriptions have shaped our understanding of the Mediterranean world from 800BC to late antiquity. Inscriptions refer to text written on durable materials such as stone and pottery. Unfortunately, these materials are typically not durable enough to remain perfectly preserved for two millennia.
Therefore, the epigraphic evidence of this period is often damaged by the time it is uncovered and the inscribed texts are incomplete as a result. Restoring (filling in missing words) and attributing (identifying chronological and geographical origins) damaged inscriptions can shed light on the past. Read More
AI program DALL-E mini prompts some truly cursed images
If you’ve seen some slightly distorted images on Twitter recently, it’s not just reality continuing to collapse on itself. An open AI program called DALL-E mini has overtaken Twitter in the last week, churning out a surreal stream of warped art.
DALL-E mini is developer Boris Dayma’s take on the the separate DALL-E program, which was released earlier this year. It produces a series of images based on text prompts, like the original program. Read More
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