Two pioneers in AI-generated writing have released a new platform that enables content providers to serve-up highly personalized sports news.
The system works by continually analyzing the kind of sports stories a particular sports fan hungers for — then provides those stories in an ever-more personalized way.
Stories can also be produced in the writing style the fan prefers.
And the news can be cast in the writing tone that fan responds to most enthusiastically.
The two AI partners see the platform as a natural for news outlets.
Plus, the tool is also custom-made for marketers and sports betting firms looking to attract sports fans with highly personalized content.
AI-generated writing pioneer Arria NLG brings its robotic writing chops to the partnership.
And Boost Sport AI adds its experience with the technology, along with its deep knowledge of sports analytics — in part offered by Jorge Costas, Boost’s director of analytics.
Costas previously worked with the Detroit Pistons and the NBA’s data team.
*In-Depth Review: Copysmith: This AI writing tool earned a four-out-of-five stars review at TechRadar.pro.
The respected tech pub characterizes Copysmith as a fast, hassle-free option for users in the market for relatively inexpensive automated writing.
For starters, TechRadar.pro writer Liam Barker likes Copysmith for its wide array of templates.
Those prefabricated formats enable the tool to instantly produce ads custom-tailored for Google, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and the like, according to Barker.
Plus, there are more templates for auto-creating advertising headlines, captions and listicles.
Observes Barker: “The process of trying out templates is straightforward — even if you have no marketing/copywriting experience.
“You simply select the templates that you want to use, then type keywords and short descriptions about your service, product, or brand into the fields provided.
“After that, the AI technology speedily generates the corresponding copy.”
Copysmith can also create generic blog posts when fed “a short introductory paragraph, a few keywords, and two or three opening sentences,” according to Barker.
One caveat: The resulting copy from any template or for any blog post is often not perfect.
So you may want to tweak the words a bit or try again with different keywords to create text that’s closer to the mark for you.
Copysmith starts at $192 annually.
*Company Annual Reports: Now Robot Written: Swedish firm United Robots is readying launch of an automated writing system that will enable companies to auto-generate annual reports.
Like most annual reports, United Robots automated reports will feature:
~Revenue, profit — and profit before taxes
~Number of employees, CEO salary, dividends
~Comparison with other companies in the same industry
~Images, including auto-generated graphs
United Robots is partnering on the project with Norwegian titles Bergens Tidende and Stavanger Aftenblad.
(For an in-depth look at the trend in auto-generated company reports, check out, “Company Reports That Write Themselves,” by Joe Dysart.)
*Huawei’s Answer to GPT-3: Chinese firm Huawei has released a competitor to GPT-3 — one of the world’s most powerful auto-text generators.
The contender, dubbed PanGu-Alpha, sports up-to-200 billion parameters — 25 million more than GPT-3 — and auto-renders text in the Chinese language.
Observes Kyle Wiggins, a writer for VentureBeat: One crucial difference between GPT-3 and PanGu-Alpha “is the number of tokens on which the models trained.
“Tokens — a way of separating pieces of text into smaller units in natural language — can be either words, characters, or parts of words.
“While GPT-3 trained on 499 billion tokens, PanGu-Alpha trained on only 40 billion — suggesting it’s comparatively undertrained.”
(For an in-depth look at GPT-3, check out: “GPT-3 and AI Writing: Stunning, if Imperfect,” by Joe Dysart.)
*AI Writing Firm Snapped-Up by Marketing Platform: Unbounce, a marketing platform designed to automate the creation of Web landing pages, has acquired AI writing tool Snazzy.ai for its toolbox.
Less than a year old, Snazzy.ai offers marketers and others quick first drafts of writing copy that can be subsequently tweaked and polished.
Observes Tamara Grominsky, chief strategy officer, Unbounce: “We saw a huge opportunity with Snazzy.”
*AI and Law: A Bit Slow on the Uptake: An ITPro review of AI implementations at law firms finds attorneys have been slow to embrace the tech.
Observes Mark Beer, commercial partner, Keystone Law: “AI is already light years ahead of the legal profession’s ability to use it.
“For many firms, Zoom is about as advanced as they want to get right now.”
Adds Sally Mewies, head of technology, Walker Morris: “It is not easy because the law has been practiced in the same way for many years and law is probably one of the least developed industries from a technological perspective.”
*AI as Writing Collaborator: BBC Investigates: The BBC is squiring an online event June 10-11 on how AI can help journalists report and write more efficiently.
Musings the online meeting promises to examine include:
*What are the editorial implications of AI?
*How does AI impact impartiality, fairness and diversity in reporting?
*Which AI tools are best for enabling a journalist to forge higher quality content?
*Social Media’s Next Big Conspiracy Theory: Conjured by Robots?: A new university report finds social media’s next big conspiracy theory could be dreamed-up by a robot.
Specifically, Georgetown University researchers were able to get GPT-3 to spin a harrowing — and completely baseless conspiracy tale — simply by feeding the auto-text generator a few sample messages from the anonymous leader of QAnon.
The result? GPT-3 was able to easily match the QAnon leader’s writing style — and create a narrative that complements the current QAnon hysteria.
*AI Doc Analysis Tool Offers New Insights: Document analysis firm Expert.ai has come-up with some new features that detect the underlying emotions and behavioral traits in writing.
One of application of the enhanced tool is deep linguistic style analysis of writing, which can identify a unique writing style.
Such tech can be used by media outlets to categorize and curate articles — based on writing style and readability.
*Journalist Group Discourages AI Regulation: European journalists are imploring the EU to hold back from regulating AI in the news industry.
Instead, the European Federation of Journalists is urging EU regulators to allow news outlets to self-regulate and to promote the ethical use of AI in media.
A number of governments and organizations are concerned that the EU — which has already released draft rules on how AI should be regulated — could wind-up creating de facto guidelines on AI use.
The reason: No other major government has stepped-up to do its own regulation.
A similar scenario unfolded a few years back, when the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation eventually went on to become the de facto standard that governs data privacy around the world today.
Observes the Washington Post: “Now, the same thing appears to be happening with respect to artificial intelligence.”
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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.