China Science Daily is using artificial intelligence to auto-generate news stories, based on article abstracts it finds in major scientific journals.
Those journals include some of the most influential scientific publications in the world, including Science, Nature, Cell and the New England Journal of Medicine.
So far, China Science Daily has published more than 200 articles using AI.
The primary impetus behind the effort: To offer Chinese scientists easy access to scientific research from around the world – devoid of language barriers — according to Zhang Mingwei, deputy editor-in-chief, China Science Daily.
In other AI-generated writing news:
*Batman Script Generated By AI: A Joker: A movie script created for the caped crusader using artificial intelligence writing tools – mostly for fun – is decidedly a miss.
Keaton Patti, who has written for Marvel and Comedy Central, says he trained an AI writing system to be Batman-savvy by having it view approximately 1,000 hours of Batman films.
The result: “One has to wonder what the AI was computing when it had Batman say, “‘Alfred, give birth to Robin,'” observes ScreenRant.
*In Development: An AI-Generated Writing Chatbot for Quickbooks: Former comedy writer Scott Ganz is developing a chatbot for Quickbooks. It will rely on artificial intelligence writing tools to offer chat support to users.
“I partner with our engineering and design teams to create an artificial personality that can dynamically interact with our customers, and anticipate their questions,” says Ganz. He’s currently principal content designer at Intuit, the maker of Quickbooks.
The AI promise here is to create a truly smart chatbot, which will prompt human users to ask more than, “Get me a human, please.”
*New AI Tool Instantly Summarizes Text: SDL has rolled out a new text summarizer, which uses AI to auto-create summaries of lengthy documents.
Simply drop in a long-form document, and SDL Content Assistant will generate a summary of your text — along with ‘promotable blurbs’ that can easily be turned into tweets on Twitter.
The short-form content generated can also be used on other digital properties.
The tool “has been built with marketers in mind,” says Jim Saunders, chief product officer, SDL. But it’s “highly intuitive and will make a difference to anyone involved in creating content.”
*Will AI Take Your Copywriting Job? – This Writer is Skeptical: “I’m sure that companies will still try to come up with programs that replace copywriters,” observes Nicki Krawczyk. “But these programs simply won’t have the flexibility, the scope, or the creativity to replace copywriters completely.
“Some companies will test them out and some will try to use them. But the vast, vast, vast majority of companies will still get more benefits out of using human copywriters.”
*Associated Press Chooses Data Skrive for Some AI Sports and Gambling Writing: The newswire service, which helped pioneer AI-generated sports writing, is tapping Data Skrive to handle some of its automated sports and gambling content.
“After providing The Associated Press with robust NBA and NHL game previews in 2019, we were eager to leverage their technology to expand our content production for hungry fan bases everywhere,” says Barry Bedlan, AP’s director of sports products.
The collaboration will add more AI-generated sports league coverage to the AP wire, according to Bedlan.
Generally, AI-generated writing enables publishers to cover a broader spectrum of sports than is possible with a team of human writers, Bedlan observes.
It also enables them to hyper-focus coverage to highly specific interests and highly specific audiences, according to Bedlan.
“Fans have always had an insatiable appetite for sports,” adds Brad Weitz, CEO, Data Skrive. “Our expanded relationship with the AP provides passionate fans with a more comprehensive offering of local sports — in a time when local coverage is more challenging than ever before.
“Whether it is text, infographics, interactive, or voice-enabled content, our platform strives to deliver content that best serves your audience.”
Under the deal, Data Skrive will auto-generate content across 14 sports and leagues for AP. AI-powered coverage will include the NFL, NCAA football, NBA, NCAA basketball, MLB, NHL, WNBA, MLS, English Premier League, Champions League, Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1 and Serie A.
*AI News Service Radar Publishes 200,000th News Story: The upstart news agency, initially underwritten with funds from Google’s Digital News Initiative, recently published its 200,000th news story generated by artificial intelligence writing tools.
The UK-based service is squired by six journalists, who create story templates that AI uses to write highly localized stories – based on data from government and other databases.
For example: Using the templates and AI-generated writing, Radar can dive into a government trends report on crime statistics and auto-create hundreds of localized news stories.
Each of those stories would illuminate how data found in the report applies to a specific town in the UK.
Radar began auto-generating news stories with AI about 14 months ago.
*A Copywriter Second-Guesses Chase’s Embrace of AI-Generating Writing: While Chase Bank turned heads this summer by going all-in on artificial intelligence writing tools, copywriter Marianne Chrisos is not impressed.
“While it’s true that AI helps businesses gain insight every day, the importance and applicability of AI copywriters taking over digital marketing may be overstated,” Chrisos observes.
“There is no doubt that AI-enabled copywriting software can give content writers and business more options and more insight,” she adds. “But that’s a far cry from being able to claim the jobs of creatives outright.”
*Near-Replica of Controversial Fake News Generator Released: Two grad students have released what they say is a mirror version of full-blown GPT-2, a fake news generator created by OpenAI.
The duo says they were able to mimic GPT-2’s fully powered version with the help of free cloud computing time from Google.
The original creator of the generator, founded by Elon Musk, has withheld access to the most powerful version of GPT-2 for months.
It fears the most intricate version of its generator could be used nefariously.
Consequently, OpenAI has released two, less potent versions of GPT-2 during the past few months. Their goal: To stimulate inquiry and interest in fake news generators within the AI research community.
*GPT-2 Fake News Generator: Less of a Threat Than Perceived?: Widespread alarm over the release of fake news generators may be overblown, according to Ben Dickson, a software engineer and founder of TechTalks.
“It’s easy to spin fantastic stories about the destruction AI models like GPT-2 can cause,” Dickson observes. But “the reality is that the people who would want to use it as a weapon know that it takes much more than coherent text to run a successful fake news campaign.”
*Also on RobotWritersAI.com — Evergreen Article:
*AI-Created Newsletters: On The Cheap
–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.