AI-generated writing firm Retresco has rolled-out a new version of its tech that gins-up sentence alternatives for writers.
Using the new software – dubbed Textgenie.io – is as easy as typing in a sentence and then clicking on ‘text variant suggestions’ to trigger alternative sentences to express the same idea.
Early adopters of Textgenie.io will mostly likely include e-retailers, who are always looking to generate alternate descriptions for their products, according to Retresco.
So far, the new Retreseco tech is available for the German language only.
In other AI-generated writing news:
*New AI Email App Snags $2.6 Million in Funding: Three college kids who invented and promoted an email app that plugs into the GPT-3 auto-text generator have just snagged $2.6 million in funding for their software.
Emailers use the app – OthersideAI – by entering a few words summarizing the kind of email they’d like to send into a simple text box.
OthersideAI does the rest, spitting back a suggested email based on the text input.
Results are not always perfect.
But apparently, investors saw enough of a good thing to get behind the new tech.
Remarkably, OthersideAI evolved from interesting idea to multimillion dollar company in a few months, according to Chris Hippensteel, news editor, The Daily Orange.
“We don’t see it slowing down with this momentum,” says Matt Shumer, a co-founder at OthersideAI and a junior at Syracuse University. “It’s this super exciting rocketship rollercoaster ride we’ve been on.”
For an in-depth look at GPT-3, check out: “GPT-3 and AI Writing: Stunning, if Imperfect,” by Joe Dysart.
*AI Can Predict Academic Success by Analyzing Your Tweets: A researcher at HSE University has come up with AI software that smokes-out high academic achievers based on their tweets.
Specifically, the app makes its prediction by weighing user vocabulary, word length, post length and how characters and symbols are used.
Use a lot of big words? You’ll probably rank higher in the AI’s analysis.
Favor the likes of emojis, capital letters and phrasing that
can be found in horoscopes? The AI will most likely guess you’re near the bottom of your academic class.
*Google Searches Now Hopefully More About Meaning – Not Keywords: The Google Search Engine is more focused on the meaning of a writer’s words on the Web than ever before, according to an article in Search Engine Land.
The reason: Google is now using AI-driven language analysis in nearly all its searches to discern the meaning of sentences and passages, according to George Nguyen, a writer for Search Engine Land.
Of course, seeing will be believing.
During the past few years, Google has continually tried to migrate its search engine away from heavy dependence on keywords.
But to date, liberally embedding Web copy with a preferred keyword or keyphrase does still seem to result in higher search engine returns.
*New AI Software from India Helps on Civil Service Exams: Nineleaps has released new AI software designed to help people in India write better essays for civil service exams there.
Dubbed ApanIAS.com, the software uses AI to evaluate practice essays and offer instant feedback for improvement.
It’s an interesting application of AI-generated writing, in that it focuses on improving writing needed for a highly specific kind of essay.
*AI Writing: A Solution for Beleaguered Copywriters?: Phrasee CEO Perry Malm says there’s a solution for the 36% of marketers without enough writers on staff: AI-generated writing.
Says Malm: “With the click of a button, a brand can get ten variants of copy, enabling it to do advanced multivariate testing without making its team work ten times as hard.
“The machine learns with every send or post, and customers get the copy that resonates best with them — every time.”
Phrasee specializes in the AI-generation of subject heads for marketing emails, ad slogans and similarly short advertising copy.
*AI: Risking Journalism Values?: Researchers from the City University of London worry that AI-generated writing could undermine basic journalism values.
The researchers observe: “While AI-enabled journalism has great potential to help alleviate journalists’ pressures, it might also disrupt journalistic norms and — at worst — interfere with their duty to inform the public.”
The solution: Designers of AI-generated writing software and similar systems should consult with journalists to ensure that fundamental journalism values are built into AI news tech.
Such design “can achieve the strongest possible value alignment by moving beyond merely supporting important values — to truly embodying them,” the researchers add.
*Influential Researcher Pans GPT-3: While more than a few AI-generated writing enthusiasts have been bowled over by auto-text generator GPT-3, Yann LeCun is not among them.
He’s chief AI scientist at Facebook and considered by some to be the ‘Godfather of AI.’
Observes LeCun: GPT-3 is “entertaining, and perhaps mildly useful as a creative help.
“But trying to build intelligent machines by scaling up language models is like [using] high-altitude airplanes to go to the moon.
“You might beat altitude records.
“But going to the moon will require a completely different approach.”
For an in-depth look at GPT-3, check out: “GPT-3 and AI Writing: Stunning, if Imperfect,” by Joe Dysart.
*AI in Journalism: Ten Things I’ve Learned: Charlie Beckett, author of an influential AI in journalism study released last fall says he’s learned a few things since.
Among them: News organizations with the deepest pockets could leave smaller news shops in the dust when it comes to AI, according to Beckett.
“The danger is that AI could exacerbate the inequality as the pioneers accelerate ahead,” Beckett adds.
Another eye-opener for Beckett: Embedding AI in a newsroom can be tougher than it seems.
Beckett observes: “There are some off-the-shelf tools.
“But generally, it takes a significant amount of time and resources to integrate, review and iterate any new AI process.
“It takes a strategic approach to understand the editorial and ethical implications of AI and how it fits in with your journalistic mission and production flows.”
*Study: Don’t Fear the Robots: A research team featuring stakeholders from myriad walks of life has concluded fears that AI and robots will steal jobs are overblown.
Instead, change brought on by the new tech will be more evolutionary than revolutionary, according to Steve Lohr, a writer for The New York Times.
One upshot, according to the researchers: “We anticipate that in the next two decades, industrialized countries will have more job openings than workers to fill them.”
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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.