Mindplex Podcast Episode 27: Tracey Jaquith, Founding Coder, Internet Archive
Learn how the Internet Archive’s TV News Archive has implemented AI and useful fact-checking tools to help detect deep fakes.
Join us with special guest Tracey Jaquith, and your co-hosts Lisa Rein and Desdemona Robot.
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Episode 27 Tracey Jaquith
Join Tracey Jaquith, the visionary mind behind the Internet Archive’s TV/News archive, for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the groundbreaking ChatGPT implementation. Explore the innovative technology that powers the nightly scanning and summarization of news chyrons from top channels, providing a reliable and accurate source of information without the pesky distractions of ads. Tracey will showcase the state-of-the-art AI inputs and techniques designed to enhance research capabilities, all the while ensuring precision and accuracy.
As Tracey Explains:
“So I have always found these chyrons extremely valuable. They’re like a human talking about what’s on TV. So, as we started looking into Open AI’s tech, I was immediately like, ‘I wonder what it could do for the chyrons?Like, could it get rid of typos? Could it get rid of ads?’ And it turns out, yeah, it can do that.
Next, we use GPT4 to create summaries based on the chyron data. Although we were initially concerned about GPT4 adding inaccuracies to the summaries– but we’ve looked at this for many months now, and we can’t find a single instance of a hallucination. Now, that doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened, just that we’ve really been looking, and we haven’t found it. This is most likely because we are providing the chyron descriptions directly to GPT4 when asking it to generate the summaries.”
Episode 27’s Featured Guest: Tracey Jaquith
Tracey was the founding coder and system architect for Internet Archive in 1996. Recently, she rewrote Archive’s TV recording system to an open source single server system, capable of 75 simultaneous 24×7 channels, made the TV site “full stack”, and brought the archive.org website to “version 2”. Tracey currently focuses on DevOps, video, audio, and AR/VR/3D. She is leading the Archive’s conversion to docker containers.
Tracey holds degrees in computer science from Cornell University where she focused on machine vision and robotics.
Outside of work, she bikes trails daily. Find her at poohbot.com, her talks are here, and @tracey_pooh.
About the Internet Archive’s TV News Archive
The Internet Archive’s TV/News Archive is a goldmine of over 50 stations from over 30 countries, offering a vast collection of news stories and video clips for easy access and sharing. With a focus on fact-checking and authenticity verification, these tools are indispensable for journalists, researchers, and anyone seeking credible news sources.
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