Google researchers say they’ve built a new, experimental AI writer nearly six times more powerful than GPT-3 – one of the world’s most formidable AI writing systems.
Essentially, the new tool is a one trillion parameter transformer system – or nearly six times bigger than the 175 billion parameters GPT-3 boasts.
Observes Tristan Greene, a writer for The Next Web: “The big idea here is that enough brute force will lead to better compute-use techniques — which will in turn make it possible to do more with less compute.
“But the current reality is that these systems don’t tend to justify their existence when compared to greener, more useful technologies.
“It’s hard to pitch an AI system that can only be operated by trillion-dollar tech companies willing to ignore the massive carbon footprint a system this big creates.”
The closest competitor to Google’s system — OpenAI’s GPT-3 — put many AI writing enthusiasts in a swoon this past summer after its initial release.
While flawed, the text writing system nevertheless stunned many users with its ability to quickly auto-generate articles, emails, legal writing, poetry and more from just a few lines of text input.
A number of commercial applications using GPT-3 as a writing engine have already emerged.
Many more are expected to follow in 2021.
For an in-depth look at the anticipated impact of GPT-3 and similar auto-writing systems, check-out “GPT-3 and AI Writing: Stunning, if Imperfect,” by Joe Dysart.
In other AI-generated writing news:
*Using AI to Co-Write Science Fiction: Writing, publishing and book marketing consultant Joanna Penn offers a look at using AI to inspire science fiction writing in this podcast.
Observes Penn: “In this episode, science fiction author Yudhanjaya Wijeratne talks about how he used artificial intelligence to co-write his novel, “The Salvage Crew.”
She adds: “In the intro, I talk about how I’ve been playing with Inferkit — using my own books to train the Natural Language Generation model.”
*New Study: Germans Uneasy About AI-Generated News Stories: New research from Meinungsmonitor Künstliche Intelligenz finds Germans regard AI-written journalism with caution.
They also believe it should be vigorously regulated.
Specifically, the researchers observe: “Our results show that the use of AI in journalistic newsrooms is viewed very critically by the German population.
“Not only is there little-to-no presumed improvement with regards to overall journalistic quality.
“Many citizens are also in favor of strong regulations for AI systems in media and journalism.
“Despite the overall critical assessment of its use, the surveyed citizens expect AI to be able to perform some journalistic tasks better than human journalists.”
*Google AI Text Summarizer Shows Promise in Healthcare: Google’s experimental Pegasus text summarizer could trigger healthcare users to adopt AI-generated writing earlier than expected, according to an article in InsideBIGDATA.
Observes Dattaraj Rao: “Healthcare and financial data is growing exponentially.
“Researchers and clinicians alike are already struggling to process and understand the vast sums of information that are being produced daily.
“Text summarization could drastically reduce the amount of time they spend pouring through individual papers, reports, data, etc. to find key highlights — while also identifying possible trends across multiple documents.
“We’re living in the golden age of natural language processing.
“And text summarization that is opening up efficiencies in healthcare and banking, financial services and insurance that couldn’t have been imagined even five years ago.”
*Facebook Developing News Summarizer: Facebook is developing a tool to auto-summarize news articles that appear on the social network.
Says Mike Schroepfer, CTO, Facebook: “Our investments in technology aren’t just about keeping our services running.
“We are paving the way for breakthrough new experiences that — without hyperbole — will improve the lives of billions.”
*New AI Tool Summarizes Academic Papers in a Single Sentence: An experimental new tool offers researchers the ability to summarize computer science papers with a single sentence.
Dubbed ‘Semantic Scholar,’ the app ingests massive numbers of scientific research papers and reduces them to one-sentence summaries.
Currently, Semantic Scholar is averaging more than seven million users each month, according to Peter Grad, a writer for Tech Explore.
Jevin West, an information scientist at University of Washington, is one of the AI tool’s most enthusiastic users.
Says West: “I predict that this kind of tool will become a standard feature of scholarly search in the near future.”
*vPhrase Snags New Patent in AI-Generated Writing: India-based vPhrase has invented a new way of auto-generating text and visualizations from data – snagging a patent for the technique in the process.
Company officials say the technology behind the patent will enhance the capability of its AI writing tool, Phrazor, to automatically generate both data visualizations and narrative texts in real-time.
“We have always been passionate about solving complex real-world problems with new, innovative technologies,” says Neerav Parekh, CEO, vPhrase.
*Survey Underway Analyzing AI’s Impact on Public Relations: The Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute is currently surveying PR pros to discern how AI is transforming the industry.
Included in the survey will be a ranking of the top ten use cases of AI in PR.
To participate in the survey, simply click here.
*Experimental AI Tool Auto-Writes Business Reports: Netherlands-based Offorte has rolled out a new, experimental tool that auto-writes business reports.
According to the company’s press release: “The technology is still in its beta phase and cannot yet substitute a human touch — but it comes close to the desired result.
“The ultimate goal is a scenario whereby an account manager explains the main points of a sales pitch, the client’s interests, and what the proposal must contain as parameters.
“The system then automatically creates a perfect proposal and provides further support in the sales process.
“Things haven’t progressed so far yet.
“But with the new Offorte’s AI Textwriter, steps are made in the right direction.”
With its announcement, Offorte becomes one of a number of AI toolmakers offering auto-report writing.
Many have perfected their take on the technology for certain business report writing needs.
For an in-depth look at these already perfected tools, check out: “Company Reports that Write Themsevles,” by Joe Dysart.
*Sarcasm: Courtesy of GPT-3: Apparently operating under the premise the world can never have enough sarcasm, a chatbot specialist has tweaked GPT-3 in the fine art of the dismissive.
Specifically, Sorin Alupoaie, founder, Swifteq, says he trained GPT-3 to exude a flair of arrogance when responding to the question, ‘Who wrote “War and Peace.”‘
Observes Alupoaie: “I asked the question many times.
“And each time I got a different answer.
My favorite one is: ‘Leo Tolstoy. It took Leo a long time to write it. It took me a long time to read it.'”
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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.