AI-generated writing firm Yseop snagged a best-in-class award for its tool, Augmented Financial Analyst, which automates the writing of financial reports.
The AI solution enables finance pros to create auto-generated reports without writing any computer code.
Plus, it can be tweaked to write those reports mimicking the writing style of a specific, human analyst.
According to Yseop’s press release, “With Yseop’s revolutionary and patented ‘intentions’ model that mimics financial analysts’ thinking, business users with no coding skills can accurately produce complex financial reports faster.
“AFA integrates data exploration and alerts to highlight key variations and values, allowing business users to quickly identify and examine specific events while providing valuable contextual elements.”
Yesop received the award, ‘Best AI Product — Enterprise,” from The Technical Analyst Awards, an annual event sponsored by the financial journal, The Technical Analyst.
(For an in-depth look at the trend in auto-generated company reports, check out, “Company Reports That Write Themselves,” by Joe Dysart.
*Zoom Lovers Now Have an Emotion-Savvy Transcription App: For the untold millions who have relied on Zoom video meetings to help them stay sane during the Coronavirus lockdown, there’s a new app that will transcribe and analyze those get-togethers — Dubber.
Available on the Zoom App Marketplace, Dubber is designed to transcribe what people are saying in those meetings — while also noting the emotional tone and sentiment of their words.
Recordings made with the app are stored in the cloud — a moved aimed at fostering greater privacy.
“Helping our customers to get the most value from their voice data is an important objective for Zoom,” says Paul Magnaghi, global ISV program leader, Zoom.
“Dubber works to assist customers in meeting their compliance obligations and gain valuable business intelligence from voice data, especially in this time of remote and hybrid working models,” Magnaghi adds.
*Space Agency Tests New Documents-to-Data Service: The US. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is testing a new program that auto-indexes the contents of any set of documents.
Dubbed Docugami, the tool is designed to index documents in widely varying formats — Word docs, PDFs, hard copy paper, legal briefs and the like — and index everything in an easy-to-search, centralized database.
Observes Devin Coldewey, a writer for TechCrunch: “All this data is meant to be portable too, of course — there are integrations planned with various other common pipes and services in business, allowing for automatic reports, alerts if certain conditions are reached, automated creation of templates and standard documents.”
*AI in Public Relations: Some Practitioners ‘Get It’: While leaders in PR continue to prod industry members to adopt AI-powered tools, some agencies are already on board.
Observes Devika Sharma, a writer for PR Week: “The PR industry is slowly but surely adapting to new technologies.
“Agencies have begun harnessing the ability of AI in their day-to-day functions, to realize its potential, simplify client operations, and create new experiences that enhance brand value.
“It is already assisting with tasks like creating reports, drafting emails out of a press release, writing and disseminating press notes, converting speech-to-text, and creating hyper-targeted media lists, among other things.
“The whole domain of robotic process automation and machine learning is adding value in the profession by cutting down on repetitive tasks, thereby accelerating human achievement.”
*Will AI Write the Next Great American Novel?: Laura Smith, deputy editor of California magazine, isn’t sure.
Granted, AI has made significant strides in helping writers create long-form fiction, Smith notes.
But it has yet to forge a masterpiece on its own.
She concludes her musings on AI with a quote from John Denero: “There’s lots we don’t understand about natural language generation still, like exactly how the human mind works and how it turns thought into language.
“Machines may have access to nearly infinite knowledge, yet our meaning-making capabilities are far superior.
“But if, for now, AI-generated art strikes us as uninspired, it’s also true that, through machine learning, the technology is constantly improving itself, leaving open the possibility that one day, it could learn to empathize, to synthesize this thing we call soul.
“Until then, we are the beautiful machines.”
*AI-Generated Writing Pioneer Offers Upgraded Plug-In for Tableau: Arria NLG — one of the earliest pioneers of AI-generated writing — has an upgraded its plug-in for business database program Tableau.
Essentially, the plug-in offers auto-generated text descriptions of the charts, graphics and other visuals that Tableau generates.
The tool targets untold numbers of business database users who find charts, graphs and other data visuals difficult to understand without accompanying text.
“This release (of the upgraded Arria plug-in) makes it really easy for people who are not business analysts or data scientists to get their questions answered fast,” says Brian Matsubara, RVP, global technology alliances, Tableau.
*Content Marketing Platform Adds AI Writing: Dentsu Marketing Cloud — a content creation and performance analysis platform for marketers — has added a GPT-3 driven content creator to its mix.
Observes India Partner, a writer for Business Insider: “The engine is designed to produce several iterations of creative copy tied to historic and predictive performances of content.”
Partner adds: “Users simply feed the engine with a seed social media caption, theme or topic and the engine generates several iterations of the best predicted performing caption(s) or post copy within a few seconds.
“The underlying intelligence of the tool can apply quantitative analysis to both pre and post-live-testing cycles and uses AI and ML to predict how audiences will engage and react to any creative message in real-time.”
*Korean Startup Offers AI-Powered Legal Translation: Korea-based Bering Lab has a new tool designed to aid attorneys in translating legal prose.
Specific apps in its arsenal include machine translation post-editing, bespoke machine translation engines and a translation productivity tool.
*In-Depth Review: Snazzy AI: Auto content generator Snazzy AI has snared a four-out-of-five stars review from TechRadarPro writer Kieron Allen.
Allen describes Snazzy AI as “one of the best content marketing tools, a next-gen platform that uses artificial intelligence to develop high-end copy in minutes.”
Allen adds: “There is a wide range of templates included on the Snazzy AI platform, including options for email outreach, pitching, product descriptions, idea generation for blogs, landing pages, headers and descriptions, features, unique selling points, Google and Facebook ads, and taglines.
“Each template automatically creates text depending on the default information you enter during the on-boarding process.”
This is a great piece to check-out if you want an under-the-hood look at Snazzy AI’s key features.
*Should the European Union Write AI Regulation for the World?: The Washington Post warns the EU could wind-up determining how AI is regulated in years to come — given that the governmental body has already released draft rules on the tech.
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, the Post notes.
“Now, the same thing appears to be happening with respect to artificial intelligence,” the Post observes.
Adds Adam Satariano, a writer for The New York Times: “The 108-page policy is an attempt to regulate an emerging technology before it becomes mainstream.
“The rules have far-reaching implications for major technology companies that have poured resources into developing artificial intelligence, including Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft – but also scores of other companies.”
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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.