A global association of data scientists has put out an urgent call: AI expertise is needed to help defeat the coronavirus.
The specific challenge: AI apps are desperately needed to mine treatment and prevention insights from a database of 29,000 scholarly articles on coronavirus, according to Kaggle, the data association leading the effort.
That database — recently collated by leading research organizations and the U.S. government — offers a wealth of information on coronavirus.
And with the right AI tools, all that data and all those insights could be quickly mined by doctors, scientists and medical pros looking to beat back the virus.
Fortunately, some AI-generated writing tools already exist to make that job easier.
SDL, for example, already has a text summarizer that uses AI to auto-create summaries of lengthy documents.
With SDL’s tool, users simply drop in a lengthy document, and SDL Content Assistant will generate a summary of their text.
Meanwhile, academic publisher Springer Nature has prototype software capable of producing a draft academic book by quickly sifting through hundreds of academic papers.
For more info on the urgent call for help, check out COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge.
In other AI-generated writing news:
*Second Chinese Court: Robot Writers Have Copyright Protection: A second Chinese court has ruled that an AI-generated article is protected by copyright.
The winner in the ruling again was tech giant Tencent. It sued after an article created by its Dreamwriter robot was republished without permission by a financial info Web site.
Tencent originally won its case in the Beijing Internet Court.
That courdt concluded that robot writers are entitled to copyright protection, as long as their work exhibited reasonable structure, clear logic and detectable originality, according to Ecns.com
More recently, Beijing Inernet Court’s decision was upheld by China’s Shenzhen Nanshan District Court.
China’s ruling differs from current legal thinking in the U.S. and Canada, which has concluded that robot writers do not enjoy copyright protection, according to Ecns.cn.
*Auto Legal Document Software Snags Award: AI-generated writing firm Woodpecker was spotlighted as a Top Three Startup at February’s Legal Tech Show, produced by the American Bar Association.
The Woodpecker platform enables lawyers to auto-write frequently used legal documents using standardized templates – all from Microsoft Word.
*AI-Generated Writing Firm Now Automates Text for 500+ Companies: AX Semantics, a leader in AI-generated writing, reports that more than 500 companies are using its software to auto-create text.
Online price comparison portal Billiger.de, for example, has already auto-generated 10,000+ descriptive texts for its Web site with AI-generated writing.
And Mytheresea, an online luxury fashion retailer, uses AX Semantics’ AI-generated writing on its site.
For more case studies on how companies are using AI-generated writing, check out AX Semantic’s case studies domain.
*MarketMuse Promising Long-Form AI-Text Generator: AI firm MarketMuse is promising to bring out an AI-generated writing product that will auto-create long-form copy.
Unlike existing AI-generated writing software — which generally can only produce 300-500 words before serious quality degradation — MarketMuse First Draft will not suffer from word length barriers, according to the company’s blog.
The text generator is being built on MarketMuse’s existing AI.
That tech is used to analyze the entire content of your Web site — along with its topical bent — to determine what type of content is most likely to succeed on your site.
*AI Business Intelligence Firm Ups-Its-Game With AI-Generated Writing: AI business intelligence software maker Maistering has added AI-generated writing to its product line.
The new automated writing capability – provided by AI-generated writing provider Arria NLG – offers Maistering users the ability to auto-generate written reports from business data.
With AI-generated writing, Maistering users are able to auto-generate quarterly financial reports in just a few minutes.
“From the very beginning, we recognized that to provide substantive value to our niche audience, we needed the ability to convert large amounts of data and numeric information into simple and short narratives that can be consumed on-the-go, via text or voice,” says John Brahim, CEO, Maistering CEO.
“Arria NLG complements data visuals with written narratives containing contextual analysis that convey data’s full story.”
For an in-depth look at how businesses across a spectrum of industries are auto-generating written reports with AI-generated writing, check-out, “Company Reports That Write Themselves,” by Joe Dysart.
*Healthcare: Ripe for AI-Generated Reports: Market research firm Tractica sees AI-generated written reports as one of the top ten uses for AI in healthcare right now, according to a new report.
“As the amount of data flowing into and across organizations grows, the problem is not just one of content distribution, but of the time it takes to comprehensively identify and organize insights that are useful and consumable,” says Keith Kirkpatrick, a principal analyst at Tractica.
“AI is now a tool well-suited for report generation, Kirkpatrick adds. “Using machine learning, natural language processing — and in some cases, deep learning – companies find that AI can collate reports far more rapidly than humans.
“AI-generated reports can surface relevant metrics, tables, and charts, and generate multiple paragraphs of narrative.”
Among the early adopters of AI-generated reports in healthcare are drug makers.
“One example of AI being applied in pharma is the generation of Clinical Study Reports (CSRs),” the report writers observe. “Regardless of the outcome of a drug trial, a pharmaceutical company must compile a detailed CSR based on the data collected. This is a time-consuming and repetitive process.
“Automation of CSRs with AI cuts costs and frees-up medical writers’ time, allowing them to work on higher-value tasks.”
Authored by Yseop, a leader in AI-generated writing, the report, “Artificial Intelligence in Pharma,” is available for free download.
*AI-Generated Marketing Copy: The Secret Sauce: There’s a real science behind AI-generated marketing copy, according to Parry Malm, CEO of AI firm Phrasee.
Malm offers a peek in this article at how that science is creating winning email subject heads, Facebook ads, Google ads, push messages, Twitter posts and similar ad copy.
Undoubtedly, Malm’s AI tech – embraced by a number of top global companies – is definitely worth a look.
Research marketing firm Gartner recognized Phrasee on its ‘cool vendor’ list in 2018.
And CB Insights, an analyst firm, named Phrasee 2017’s Most Innovative AI Company.
Meanwhile, Phrasee also snagged the Tech Entrepreneur of the Year title at the UK Business Awards in 2016.
*Diversity Hiring, Done Right: Companies looking to ensure their job ads encourage diversity in their workforce will want to check out this Wired interview.
It features Kieran Snyder, CEO, Textio – a firm that specializes in auto-generating inclusive, diversity encouraging job ads.
“Textio is an augmented writing platform,” Snyder says. “Think of it as a word processor that is designed to tell you who’s going to respond to the things that you’re writing.
“So based on the patterns of language that you’re using, you may resonate more with one audience versus another.”
Wired offers the Snyder interview in two formats: text and podcast.
*A Look at the Top 7 AI Writing Assistants: Edgy Universe has released its list of the top 7 AI writing assistants for journalists, copywriters and their brethren.
Topping the list is Ink, a tool that enables writers to optimize Web copy for the highest returns on the search engines, according to Edgey, an SEO service provider.
“This AI tool knows how Google values the idea behind your words. So, it will make sure that your content is topically complete in the eyes of the search engine giant,” observes the Edgy Universe blog.
*Special Feature: Company Reports That Write Themselves
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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.