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Quantifying Geospatial in the Common Crawl Corpus

Ilyankou, Ilya, Wang, Meihui, Haworth, James, Cavazzi, Stefano

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit emerging geospatial capabilities, stemming from their pre-training on vast unlabelled text datasets that are often derived from the Common Crawl corpus. However, the geospatial content within CC remains largely unexplored, impacting our understanding of LLMs' spatial reasoning. This paper investigates the prevalence of geospatial data in recent Common Crawl releases using Gemini, a powerful language model. By analyzing a sample of documents and manually revising the results, we estimate that between 1 in 5 and 1 in 6 documents contain geospatial information such as coordinates and street addresses. Our findings provide quantitative insights into the nature and extent of geospatial data within Common Crawl, and web crawl data in general. Furthermore, we formulate questions to guide future investigations into the geospatial content of available web crawl datasets and its influence on LLMs.


Turn On Google Voice Search On PC And Get Your Phone Number

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Nowadays, nearly every individual and business is asking how to turn on Google Voice for PC. It is a revolutionary product that can dramatically change the way we use our computers, especially for business. It is possible to make and receive phone calls from your Google Voice account regardless of where you are. You can make or receive calls even while you are on the go. Google Voice works with any Google phone and is free to all who own Google accounts.


Addressing the Invisible: Street Address Generation for Developing Countries with Deep Learning

Demir, Ilke, Raskar, Ramesh

arXiv.org Machine Learning

More than half of the world's roads lack adequate street addressing systems. Lack of addresses is even more visible in daily lives of people in developing countries. We would like to object to the assumption that having an address is a luxury, by proposing a generative address design that maps the world in accordance with streets. The addressing scheme is designed considering several traditional street addressing methodologies employed in the urban development scenarios around the world. Our algorithm applies deep learning to extract roads from satellite images, converts the road pixel confidences into a road network, partitions the road network to find neighborhoods, and labels the regions, roads, and address units using graph- and proximity-based algorithms. We present our results on a sample US city, and several developing cities, compare travel times of users using current ad hoc and new complete addresses, and contrast our addressing solution to current industrial and open geocoding alternatives.


21 clever Alexa commands you will use again and again

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

Here are 21 commands that even seasoned Echo users may not know. Many of them are useful, some are fun, and others give the illusion that Alexa is as cognizant as we are. Ask Alexa how to treat cuts, burns, fevers and more. More than any other device, Alexa has become our closest approximation of artificial intelligence. Amazon's voice assistant has a voice and personality, and if you ask the right question, it'll even get sassy with you.


21 clever Alexa commands you will use again and again

FOX News

More than any other device, Alexa has become our closest approximation of artificial intelligence. She has a voice and personality, and if you ask the right question, she'll even get sassy with you. Users even refer to Alexa as "she." We usually prefer to say her name, rather than the name of the device itself, Amazon Echo. Recently, Alexa has made the news as it was reported that a Portland, Oregon couple's Echo recorded their conversation and sent it to a friend on their contact list.


Artificial Intelligence Meets Ancient Ritual in New Wedding Planning S

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Because taxes involve a bunch of complicated rules that everybody wants to get right, but very few people want to learn. For a lot of our customers, the formal etiquette used to word invitations, address envelopes, and all the rest of the process is very much the same way. The program uses artificial intelligence (A.I.) for a lot of different aspects of etiquette, but one of the best examples is the  expert system that automatically creates the wording for invitations. The wedding planning software asks the user questions about their wedding plans, and then, based on the specific situation (A couple hosting their own wedding, which will be outside, at the residence of a friend, at a particular time, etc.) the software use the classic, formal rules of etiquette to produce invitation wording which takes into account all of the factors, and is still elegant and proper. In addition to using an expert system for wording invitations, the wedding planning software also handles an issue that for many brides and grooms is their largest etiquette headache: figuring out what to call their guests on the invitation envelopes. How should their names read on the invitation?


THINK YOUR HIP? Artificial Intelligence Has Ranked The Most 'Hipster Suburbs' Around Australia

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As much as we tend to cringe when referring to the term' hipster culture' – we think there's some practical value to scoring suburbs on their (dare I say it) trendiness. At the end of the day, living somewhere that has character and access to good food and coffee trumps the alternative. Microburbs, an online property tool that launched last year, uses an algorithm to give suburbs – and even smaller pockets of land within them (thus the'micro') – a rating based on their cultural vibe. According to the algorithm, Sydney has the most'hipster' suburbs with Darlinghurst rating 9.9/10 and Surry Hills 9.9/10. Meanwhile, Melbourne hosts 21 suburbs with a score above 9, while Sydney has 20. So judging by this, it's still a little unclear which city comes up on top.