Wonder tool GPT-3 can now auto-summarize books.
The software’s maker, OpenAI, says it created the auto-summarizer by tweaking its GPT-3 software to first summarize small sections of a book — and then summarize those summaries to forge an overall book summary.
The supercomputer-driven summarizer is still in prototype mode.
And OpenAI has no plans at this time to release the summarizer as a commercial product.
GPT-3 first began turning heads on its release in Summer 2020.
Scores of computer scientists and others have since been amazed at its ability to auto-create short Web copy, product descriptions, ad slogans and similar text with just a few lines — or even just a few words of input.
(For an in-depth look at GPT-3, check out: “GPT-3 and AI Writing: Stunning, if Imperfect,” by Joe Dysart.)
In other AI-generated writing news:
*In-Depth AI Writer Review: Anyword: Ecommerce Platform offers glowing review of Anyword in this piece.
In a phrase, Anyword is designed to take your marketing message and auto-generate a more polished version of it.
Observes Joe Warnimont, a writer for Ecommerce Platform: “As an example, you may write out a bit of copy for a Facebook ad selling smartwatch wristband replacements.
“You send the original text through Anyword, which then spits out an improved version that’s made to boost conversions through that ad.
“As a bonus, Anyword provides an evaluation of the result by predicting its performance based on the marketing channel, original copy, and whatever Anyword came up with.
“You’ll see an overall performance score — as well as several other metrics like who the ad copy is best targeted towards — using elements like gender, age and shopping preferences to help hone your targeting choices.”
This is an unusual approach for an AI writing program — and one of many Anyword uses to ensure the tool optimizes marketing messages.
*’Thought Leadership’ AI Content Curator Released: Turbine Labs has released a new curator that matches a company’s perspective on business with high quality articles it finds in the news media that promulgate the same view.
The tool may be of great use to a company that is looking to buttress the analysis and perspective offered by a company’s CEO blog, for example, with news articles supporting the blog’s perspective.
Says Leigh Fatzinger, CEO, Turbine Labs: “In today’s market, credibility is everything.
“With ‘Thought Leadership Briefing,’ audiences not only receive the original content they’re seeking.
“The also enjoy the added benefit of high-quality media stories and influencer commentary that affirm and validate the thought leader’s position,” Fatzinger adds.
*New Tool Analyzes and Auto-Generates Reports for Human Resources Execs: Human resources execs may want to check-out new software that analyzes HR survey responses and auto-generates reports on that analysis.
Dubbed Narrative Insight, the tool analyzes employee sentiment from surveys they take, auto-generates a report — and sends that insight along to company managers.
Says Greg Harris, CEO, Quantum Workplace, the maker of Narrative Insight: “Organizations are in need of solutions to help them better understand the employee voice.
“Our Narrative Insight tool allows HR leaders to easily learn where they are winning as well as identify opportunities for improvement in increasing employees’ connectedness to work.”
*Automated Financial Docs Toolmaker Gets $80 Million Boost: Auto financial docs maker Ocrolus has raked in $80 million in new funding.
Orcrolus’ tool is used by banks and other financial institutions to analyze and auto-generate reports on documents needed to grant loans.
Ocrolus uses a combination of technologyies — including optical character recognition and machine learning — to auto-generate those reports.
Says Sam Bobley, CEO, Orcrolus: “We wanted to create a new way of doing this.
“And what we did was we built a machine learning-based platform — that also incorporates humans.
*AI Contract Analyzer Released: Pramata has released new AI-driven software that helps automate the analysis and management of written contracts.
Dubbed ‘Effortless Contract AI,’ the tool:
~Creates a clean, digital version of every document
~Establishes a normalized, complete set of documents for every relationship
~Extracts hidden, unstructured data into a structured, usable format
~Enables users to more quickly make decisions on contracts
*AI Tool Ferets Out Sources of Disinformation Campaigns: Blackbird.AI has snared $10 million in new funding for a tool designed to protect firms and organizations from disinformation campaigns.
Specifically, the AI software quickly identifies cohorts or ‘tribes’ of online users who are run disinformation campaigns on the Web and social media — and auto-generates reports on those campaigns.
Says Wasim Khaled, CEO, Blackbird: “Some of the largest organizations we’ve talked to” can in theory ferret-out the same insights being uncovered by Blackbird’s technology.
“But the lift might take them 10-to-12 days — which makes it really unsuited for anything but the most forensic reporting, after things have kinda gone south.”
What organizations in the crosshairs really need is tech that can unearth those same disinformation campaign insights in two minutes — or even in two seconds, Khaled adds.
“And that’s where — from day one — we’ve been looking to get,” Khaled says.
*New Guide to Automated Company Reports Released: Outlier.ai has dropped a new eBook, “The Definitive Guide to Automated Business Analysis.”
The tome offers a look at new AI software that reaches down into corporate databases and serves-up auto-written reports on the insights buried there.
Specifically, the book explores:
~Why 65% of companies are dissatisfied with their current analytics solution, which often rely too heavily on tough-to-understand charts-and-graphs
~How companies are realizing 30%+ year-over-year revenue increases by adopting an automated business analysis solution
(For an in-depth look at the trend in auto-generated company reports, check out, “Company Reports That Write Themselves,” by Joe Dysart)
AP to News Outlets: What’s Your AI Readiness?: The Associated Press is conducting a new survey designed to determine the percentage of news outlets ready to integrate AI into their operations.
The study is also seeking to assess how news outlets are currently using AI, along with how AI and automation might further enhance their operations.
Says Aimee Rinehart, a program manager at AP: “There is a growing technology gap between national and local newsrooms that this project aims to narrow.
“It’s critical that our survey has broad participation from local newsrooms of every size.”
The survey is also looking to includes AP members and non-AP members alike, according to Rinehart.
The Associated Press turned heads earlier this year with word that it’s offering free consultations for news outlets looking to add AI to their mix.
Observes Ernest King, AI product manager, The Associated Press: “Our program over the next few years will involve going to select newsrooms and helping them identify and deploy AI solutions.
“All of this will be provided free by the AP and its partners — which include the Northwestern University Knight Lab.
“We seek to enable journalists to pursue what humans do best, while bringing in AI to help with the rest.”
*AI Big Picture: Some AI Experts Hope the Tech Will Be A Collaborative Tool: As AI increasingly gobbles-up jobs once performed by humans, a group of researchers is hoping AI will evolve into a collaborative tool.
In the latest installment of Stanford University’s “One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence,” the researchers observe: “Whether it’s finding patterns in chemical interactions that lead to a new drug discovery or helping public defenders identify the most appropriate strategies to pursue, there are many ways in which AI can augment the capabilities of people.
“An AI system might be better at synthesizing available data and making decisions in well-characterized parts of a problem — while a human may be better at understanding the implications of the data.”
A rosy picture, for sure.
But others are less sanguine about AI’s future.
Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University, for example, believes writing that is automated by artificial intelligence represents a real threat to writers’ jobs.
Specifically: the growing use of AI to automate the writing of sports, real estate, traffic, weather, and financial news stories.
Observes Kennedy: “It (automated reporting) sounds innocuous enough, given that much of this work would probably go undone if it couldn’t be automated.
“But let’s curb our enthusiasm.
“Let me introduce you to the two most bottom line-obsessed newspaper publishers in the United States — Alden Global Capital and Gannett.
“If they could, they’d unleash the algorithms to cover everything up-to-and-including city council meetings, mayoral speeches and development proposals.
“And if they could figure out how to program the robots to write human-interest stories and investigative reports, well, they’d do that too.”
Bottom-line: Kennedy warns writers and others to dismiss sugar-coated accounts of AI, which blindly present only the upside of auto-generated writing.
In a very real sense, Kennedy predicts AI — for all its benefits — will also rob current and future writers of jobs and opportunities.
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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.