A new study finds that automation has not been gobbling up jobs at breakneck speed as expected, according to an article in National Review.

Instead, the rate of job automation has been pretty much flat during the past 20 years, say economists Keller School and Robin Hanson.

“The fundamental nature of automation hasn’t changed over the past 20 years,” Hanson says.

“There’s this AI media story that’s been played over and over again for the last decade, and people are so familiar with it that they don’t bother to research it,” he adds.

In other AI-generated writing news:

*Instant Legalese – Courtesy of AI-Generated Writing: Ghost-writer Joshua Lisec takes a look at interesting, new applications of GPT-3 — a well-known AI-generated writing tool — in this 16-minute video.

One gripping example: How GPT-3 can be used to instantly convert everyday English into legal writing — with the proper training.

Using GPT-3, for example, someone can type, “My landlord entered my apartment without my permission.”

In response, GPT-3 trained in legalese will instantly change that wording to, “Defendant entered plaintiff’s dwelling without plaintiff’s consent.”

Similarly, type in, “My apartment had mold and it made me sick,” and GPT-3 will render the wording in legal prose with “Plaintiff’s dwelling was infested with toxic and allergenic mold spores and plaintiff was rendered physically incapable of pursuing his or her usual and customary vocation, occupation and/or recreation.”

Even more striking: Translating into legalese is only one of a myriad of applications possible with GPT-3, according to Lisec.

*AI Writing and Marketing Tools: A Look at Some Top Vendors: ClickZ offers its take on some of the top AI-generated writing and similar tools available for marketers.

Making the list is MarketMuse, an AI tool that suggests changes to your marketing text, based on the primary, secondary and tertiary keywords you’re using.

Also aces is Atomizy, according to ClickZ.

It’s an AI tool that helps you select the best subject line for your marketing email, based on the system’s knowledge of what has worked best for more than a million email campaigns.

“AI is transforming marketing—giving marketers more accurate and more useful insights on a continuous basis,” observes ClickZ writer Charlie Braithwaite.

“Whether you want to optimize your content, advertising, or audience management, there’s a tool out there for you,” Braithwaite adds.

*AI-Aided Fiction Writing: A Deep Dive: Joe Solari, founder, The Business of Writing, takes an in-depth look at AI-powered fiction coaching tool Authors A.I. in this 53-minute video.

Dubbed “Marlowe,” the software uses AI to show writers how their novel stacks-up against proven best sellers.

“What we’re trying to do is sort of explain that it’s not like we’re downloading this strange intelligence from the Internet and it’s putting it in your computer and it’s just going to go wild,” says J.D. Lasica, co-founder, Authors A.I.

Instead, Authors A.I. uses a set of machine learning algorithms to detect the winning elements of successful bestsellers, according to Lasica.

*Next-up for Retail: Personality Driven AI Chatbots: As AI-powered chatbots become more sophisticated, companies will be able to imbue them with more deeply imagined personalities, according to Jonathan Foster.

Foster is a principal content experiences manager at Microsoft.

He’s also a key force behind Microsoft’s chatbot, Cortana.

“The personality, the brand — what we want the company to ‘feel like’ — is critical” in the design of company chatbots, Foster says.

Foster offers an in-depth look at the technology – which is simply AI-generated writing that responds to human questions — in this 52-minute video.

*AI-Aided Investigative Journalism: An In-Depth Look: Marina Walker Guevara offers a deep-dive into how investigative journalism can be enhanced with machine learning tools in this 1 hour, 19-minute video.

Walker Guevera is director of strategic initiatives at The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

The talk is designed for techies and non-techies alike.

Why AI Needs Journalism: The MIT Club of Northern California takes a look at AI and journalism in this 25-minute video.

Featured speakers are Karen Hao, senior AI reporter at MIT Technology Review and Andrew Mairena.

Mairena is product manager at Moveworks, an AI platform designed to resolve employee IT issues.

Enhancing the Newsroom with AI, Machine Learning and Robots: Michael Grant, a teaching fellow at Google News Lab, offers insights into how newsrooms are enhanced by AI and related tech in this 1-hour video.

Included is a look at Wordsmith, a pioneering tool in AI-generated writing, made by Automated Insights.

“It really does help fill holes in our journalism coverage –particularly where maybe the amount of content that needs to be produced in the area can be supplemented by the use of machine AI,” Grant says of Wordsmith.

*AI Coaching Tools for Student Writers: Studiosity and CSIRO’s Data 61 offer an in-depth look at AI coaching tools for student writers in this 40-minute video.

“Recent advances in artificial intelligence and natural language processing are simply quite astounding,” says Stephen Wan.

He’s a researcher in computational linguistics and natural language processing at CSIRO’s Data 61.

With AI coaching, “the goal is to learn to write better – not to automatically correct all the errors in a text,” Wan says.

*Standardizing Content and Messaging With AI: Futurist Kevin Benedict interviews Chris Willis – a key player in AI-aided standardization of company content — in this 23-minute video.

Willis is chief marketing officer at Acrolinx, an AI copywriting editing tool that can be customized to ensure that all writing and content produced by a company aligns with a company’s brand.

“Companies have spent millions and millions of dollars developing a brand, and why– because the brand is their biggest, single asset.”

But too often, copy generated for those companies are often off-brand – muddling the company’s image, according to Willis.

Acrolinx solves that problem by adjusting consistency, clarity and character in text to ensure it aligns with company brand image, according to Willis.

*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.