AI-generated writing firms are developing new tools that will enable you to ‘converse’ with your business database.
“Rather than asking your human analyst for the latest sales performance data — and waiting a few hours for the reply — you can have a dynamic, multi-turn conversation with your data over breakfast,” observes Sharon Daniels, CEO, Arria NLG, an AI-generated writing toolmaker.
Or, “You might begin conversing with a digital or holographic representation of a human,” to secure that same data in conversational form, Daniels adds.
In a phrase: Look for new AI conversational tools to emerge that will enable everyone at your business to secure the deep insights buried in your computer systems – simply by ‘talking with your data.’
In other AI-generated writing news:
*Google to Release Real-Time, Voice-to-Text, AI Transcription: Journalists and others looking to quickly generate text transcriptions from interviews, speeches and other voice presentations now have a new tool from Google.
It’s an AI-driven recorder/transcriber — pre-installed on Google’s soon-to-be-released Pixel 4 smartphone — that morphs voice-to-text in real-time.
With the release, Google is going head-to-head with other competitors in the voice transcription space, including Trint, Otter.ai and Reason8.
*AI’s Impact on Journalism: An Unvarnished Look from Columbia University: In this excellent, revealing interview from SourceFabric, Thomas Kent – a journalism professor at Columbia University – offers a ‘get real’ analysis of AI-driven journalism and where’s it’s headed.
“AI isn’t sentimental, and it isn’t ideological,” Kent says. “It can be used for good or for evil. It can be used to replace journalists or to strengthen journalists.
“It can be used to get the truth out, and it can be used for disinformation.
“It’s a neutral piece of technology that can be adapted for almost anything.”
*Travel Marketing: Marketing Emails at the Push of an AI Button: Travel agents, hotel chains and travel brokers are easily generating personalized marketing emails to prospective customers with the help of software from AI-generated writing firms.
“At the push of a button, NLG applications (AI-generated writing applications) create hotel descriptions, sightseeing highlights and seasonal offers fully automatically,” observes Kristin Strauch, content and strategy, Retresco.
“Offers can be written in a way that is highly individual for the respective recipient,” Strauch adds.
For example, AI-generated writing can personalize a marketing email based on a customer’s background, marital status, age, preferred form of travel (business or pleasure) and/or other variables.
*Nvidia Uses AI-Generated Writing to Bring Data to Life: GPU-making giant Nvidia says it’s using software from Automated Insights to enhance understanding of business reports.
Essentially, the company has integrated Automated Insights’ Wordsmith software with the business intelligence software package it uses — Tableau.
The integration enables Nvidia to auto-add text descriptions to the graphics, charts and other graphics that Tableau generates.
Those text descriptions make it much easier to give context and understanding to Tableau’s visuals, according to LaSandra Brill, head of digital planning and insights, Nvidia.
“Automated Insights’ Wordsmith has completely changed how our team interacts with Tableau,” Brill says. “We can now ask the most pertinent questions directly within Tableau and receive real-time analysis from Wordsmith.”
A number of AI-generated writing solutions are offering the same type of integration with many other business intelligence software packages.
Those include Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI, Microstrategy, Qlik, Spotfire and SAP.
*AI-Driven Email Fundraising Solution Gets an Upgrade: Boodle – a fundraising solution that auto-generates email requests for donations from contacts in your database — has gotten a make-over.
The company has greatly simplified its software’s dashboard.
And the tool also enables you to mine more details about each potential donor in your database.
Other enhanced features include a fully immersive messaging system and the ability to auto-create emails using templates.
Plus, you can use the system to track clicks, opens and responses each time you send an AI-generated email campaign.
*A Playful Look at AI-Generated Writing Gone Wrong: While AI-generated writing is making serious inroads in journalism, copywriting and ad writing, the tool is not invincible.
Sometimes, its attempts to persuade simply come off as silly.
Witness an AI-generated pitch recently generated by Burger King: “It is a boy bird with crispy chicken tenders from Burger Thing.”
Click to this article for more humorous almost-rans.
*Auto-Generated Reports of Investment Portfolios: A Breeze with AI: Brokerage firms looking to provide instant, real-time analysis of investment portfolios for their customers now have a solution in Phrazor.
The package enables a brokerage to offer an online dashboard for trading accounts, which generates AI-driven analysis of a customer’s investments — on-the-fly.
Each report, created by AI-generated writing, features real-time updates on:
*Overall Portfolio Snapshot
*Asset Allocation
*Segment and Sector Allocation
*Detailed Equity Recommendations
*Are AI-Machined Words Bloodless?: Copywriter Steve Taylor questions if AI-generated writing can truly substitute for prose created by a living, breathing, sentient being.
He singles-out Textio — an AI-driven job ad creation tool — for consideration.
His take: Granted, Textio’s AI-generated ads do offer job seekers a basic idea of what an employer wants.
But Textio leaves so much left unsaid with its AI-generated job ads, Taylor adds.
“Not a single one of them told me anything about the people I’d be working with, the atmosphere of the office I’d be working in, or what would make me happy to be there,” he observes.
*Firm Predicts Increased Use of AI in Marketing in Thailand: Thailand marketers will increasingly use tools from AI-generated writing firms in coming years, according to Carlo Herold, founder and chief executive of Heroleads.
Specifically, Herold sees growing numbers of Thai marketing firms onboarding AI automated content tools, AI personalized written content tools and AI-writing driven customer service chatbots.
“AI will play more of a role in digital marketing, as it helps to understand customer insights and optimize interaction with targets,” Herold says.
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–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.