AI researchers have come up with a prototype virtual sports coach, which can give inspiring pep talks to teams that need a good jolt to win.
The AI software was brought up-to-speed by ingesting the best motivational pep talks by sports coaches researchers could find.
Once enlightened, the system is able to regurgitate those speeches, as needed.
Plus, it can synthesize a new pep talk for any given sports challenge, on-the-spot — cobbled together from a number of those greatest pep talks of all time.
Researchers hope their virtual sports coaching software can ultimately be adapted to create similar virtual coaching software for business teams.
Observes Michael Vizard, a writer for VentureBeat: “In theory at least, if an AI platform knows what strategies were employed by business leaders that faced a similar challenge, it could provide timely advice to the ‘head coach’ of a business.”
The virtual sports coach research is a collaborative effort of OpenAI — makers of the GPT-3 auto-text generator — and SportsBettingDime.
SportsBettingDime is an online gambling outlet.
In other AI-generated writing news:
*In-Depth Review: CrawlQ AI: Saas Revu offers a detailed walkthrough on how CrawlIQ can auto-generate copy for marketers and other users in this 31-minute video.
Like many AI auto-writers, CrawlIQ comes equipped with a number of templates that can be used to auto-create ads for various social media networks, video scripts, headlines, emails, landing pages, product pitches and the like.
But the software differs from many competitors in that it prompts you to respond to a number of questions about the kind of copy you’re looking to create.
The goal here: To auto-generate copy for you that is much more custom-tailored to your needs.
The premise behind the approach makes sense: A person who asks you 20 questions about the kind of ad you want is generally going to produce a more customized creation than someone who asks you two-or-three questions and runs with that superficial understanding.
CrawlIQ can also summarize the text found at any Web address.
And it has the ability to tweak that summary with words to engender that summary with a different emotional tone, a higher or lower reading level and/or similar tweaks.
Other CrawlIQ features include article outlining, search engine optimization and market research on competitors.
CrawlIQ starts at a one-time, basic use price of $79.
*AI-Generated Song Lyrics — As You Play: Researchers at Waterloo University have come up with an AI system that generates lyrics as you play music.
Dubbed LyricJam, the AI software churns-out song lyrics based on the kind of music you’re playing.
The system works by ingesting a continuous stream of live audio clips of a song that a musician or band is playing — while spitting-out suggested lyrics, based music genre.
For example, researchers observed that lyrics generated for ambient music are very different than those auto-generated for upbeat music.
Observes Olga Vechtomova, an engineering professor at Waterloo University: “One unexpected finding was that participants felt encouraged by the generated lines to improvise.
“For example, the lines inspired artists to structure chords a bit differently and take their improvisation in a new direction than originally intended.
“Some musicians also used the lines to check if their improvisation had the desired emotional effect.”
*Yet Another GPT-3 Competitor Unleashed: AI21 Labs has joined the growing roster of organizations releasing competitors to GPT-3 — considered a gold standard in auto-text generation.
AI21’s alternative to GPT-3 works using 178 billion parameters — or about 3 billion more than GPT-3.
Dubbed ‘Jurassic-1,’ the auto-text generator is already available for commercial use for “small and medium businesses, freelancers, individuals, and researchers on a consumption-based model,” observes AI21 CEO Yoav Shoham.
“For clients with enterprise-scale volume, we offer a subscription-based model,” Shoham adds.
(For an in-depth look at GPT-3, check out: “GPT-3 and AI Writing: Stunning, if Imperfect,” by Joe Dysart.)
*New Wrinkle in Automated Company Reports Market: Cortical.io has released new AI software that auto-generates reports on key data that companies are looking for in agreements, contracts, policies, financial reports and other unstructured documents.
The system “uses Natural Language Understanding (NLU) to analyze relevant information from large quantities of documents quickly — and with an accuracy that is difficult to achieve at scale with manual labor or with other contract analysis tools,” according to a recent Cortical.io press release.
Says Thomas Reinemer, COO, Cortical.io: “While many companies are selling off-the-shelf solutions that cannot be easily customized — or NLU platforms that need months of development — businesses are looking for solutions that deliver quick results, while meeting their specific requirements.
“So, we’ve built Contract Intelligence as a solution that is easy-to-customize and quick-to-implement.”
*GPT-3: Apparently, A Great Hacker, Too: Researchers have found that auto-text generator GPT-3 has another dark side: the ability to dupe people into clicking on malicious links in emails.
Such links are widely used by hackers to trick email recipients into downloading malware onto their computers — including ransomware.
Unfortunately, the supercomputer-driven tool is very good at generating highly customized malicious emails by preying on the personality types of the recipients of those emails.
In fact, in a side-by-side comparison, malicious emails generated by the AI tool were better at tricking recipients into clicking on malicious links than similar emails created by humans.
The reason? The AI tool uses machine learning focused on personality analysis to auto-create emails, according to Lily Hay Newman, a writer for Wired.
Specifically, the AI emails home-in on a person’s proclivities and mentality — which are distilled by the AI’s study of that person’s online behavior, according to Newman.
Adds Newman: “By running the outputs through multiple services, the researchers were able to develop a pipeline that groomed and refined the emails before sending them out.
“They say that the results sounded ‘weirdly human’ and that the platforms automatically supplied surprising specifics — like mentioning a Singaporean law when instructed to generate content for people living in Singapore.”
*Coming: Zero-Cost Translation: In a harrowing alert for people who make a living translating speech and text, a translation industry expert predicts AI will soon reduce the cost of translation services to virtually zero.
Observes Jaap van der Meer, founder of Taus, a language data network:
“In this new phase, technology essentially takes over completely.
“The human translator is no longer needed in the process.
“Google and Microsoft alluded to this future state when they claimed that their MT (machine translation) engines translated as well as human professional translators.
“Once the right infrastructure is in place, the production of a new translation costs nearly nothing.
“And capacity becomes infinite.”
*The State of Machine Translation: Exhaustive Study Published: Researchers have released a comprehensive study analyzing the state of machine translation.
According to the team, ” This paper presents the first large-scale meta-evaluation of machine translation (MT).
“We annotated MT evaluations conducted in 769 research papers published from 2010 to 2020.
“Our study shows that practices for automatic MT evaluation have dramatically changed during the past decade.”
*Study: Automated Writing Triggering Raft of ‘Fake’ Academic Papers: A team of computer science researchers has concluded that automated writing programs are churning-out scores of fabricated academic papers.
The researchers uncovered the disingenuous academic writing by running a search for decidedly unscientific phrasing currently popping-up in academic writing.
Such sore thumb phrases include ‘counterfeit consciousness’ and ‘colossal information.’
The result: An examination of papers indexed by citation database Dimensions uncovered more than 860 publications sporting unscientific writing.
Observes Holly Else, a writer for Nature: “Further investigation revealed that these strange terms — which they (researchers) dub ‘tortured phrases’ — are probably the result of automated translation or software that attempts to disguise plagiarism.”
*AI Big Picture: Our AI Future: Quotes from Heavyweights: Forbes India has put together a thought-provoking collection of quotes on artificial intelligence — offered up by some of the world’s leading tech thinkers.
Included among the gems:
“Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.”
~Stephen Hawking
English theoretical physicist
“AI doesn’t have to be evil to destroy humanity. If AI has a goal and humanity just happens to come in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course, without even thinking about it — no hard feelings.”
~Elon Musk
American entrepreneur
“AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies.”
~Sam Altman
American entrepreneur
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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.