Academic publisher Springer Nature has released what it dubs the first research book written with artificial intelligence (AI).
No cliffhanger, it nevertheless summarizes scores of insights from a highly specialized field – lithium ion batteries – culled from AI analysis of hundreds of academic papers.
You can see how Springer’s AI-generated writing stacks up against a human by downloading a free copy of the academic text.
In other AI-generated writing news:
*AI News Service in U.K. Generating 8,000 Stories-Per-Month: U.K.’s Radar news service, initially funded by Google, is currently cranking-out 8,000-stories-per-month.
*The State of AI-Generated Copywriting: Buried within a new list of 7,000+ firms specializing in marketing technology are many companies that have developed all sorts of modules to automate the writing process.
You can scoop-up the data as an infographic or as an Excel spreadsheet featuring a listing of 7,000+ individual company names.
*Learn AI, Own the Future of News Media: “I would call on journalists to step-up and really become AI designers if they want to own the future of news media,” advises Nick Kiakopoulos, assistant professor, Northwestern University.
He and others assessed the future of AI-generated journalism at an April symposium.
*A Frame-of-Reference as Old as Life Itself: AI-generated journalism may one day be able to reach back through the entire history of the human race to provide deep context for breaking news, according to Kalev Leetaru, a senior fellow at George Washington University.
*AI is a Journalist Tool, Not a Competitor: Journalists fear AI is “going to take away their jobs. But it’s very much an enhancement and a tool, like a typewriter,” says Matt Eaton, a general manager at Gray Meta, a firm specializing in AI-generated content.
Gray Meta is currently developing video transcription technology aimed at auto-transcribing anything said in a video into text.
*Will AI Save Journalism — Or Kill It?: This piece from the Wharton School offers an interesting snapshot of the current state of AI writing and news, delving into the impact of AI-generated writing on journalism at The Washington Post, The Associated Press, BBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times and Sunday Times in the United Kingdom, Japan’s NHK, Finland’s STT, China’s Xinhua News Agency and Radar.
*Sweden’s United Robots Inks Major Deal to Automate News: The AI-generated writing firm will provide automated editorial content to all of Schibsted’s media houses in Sweden and Norway.
*AI-Generated Writing at the BBC: The public TV station is producing 100+ localized stories each month, focused on the performance of scores of hospitals across the UK.
The project is “just the first step in the BBC’s thoughtful experimentation with automated journalism” according to Roo Hutton, a developer at BBC News Labs.
*A New AI Competitor for Publishers — Big Tech: News publishers will most likely face direct competition from tech goliaths like Google and Facebook in coming years, as those companies begin publishing their own news stories generated by artificial intelligence, according to Kasper Lindskow, head of strategy and business development at Denmark’s Ekstra Bladet.
–Joe Dysart is a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 40+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.