The Miami Herald has joined the ranks of newspapers that have handed over coverage of local real estate to AI.
Dubbed the ‘Miami Herald Bot,’ the AI tech has been auto-reporting on big real estate deals in Miami since mid-October.
The bot’s launch coincided with the last byline of Rene Rodriquez.
Rodriquez was the Miami Herald’s previous real estate reporter, who suffered the unfortunate fate of only being made of flesh-and-blood.
Automating coverage of real estate news has been growing in popularity during the past few years.
The Atlanta Journal has been using AI to crank-out real estate news for more than a year now.
And Bergens Tidende — a Norway publisher — won three Global Media Awards for automating its home sales Web site domain.
Yet another news outlet gung-ho on automating real estate news is Sweden-based NWT Media.
And there’s even an online tool anyone can use — Listing AI — that can generate a written real estate listing in seconds.
In other AI-generated writing news:
*In-Depth Review: SmartWriterr: Like virtually all AI writers based on predictive text, SmartWriterr promises to auto-generate sales pages, ads, emails, sales letters, blog posts in a flash.
But Beastpreneur pans the package, observing: “I don’t recommend this software, especially for its price point.”
Specific problems Beastpreneur has with SmartWriterr:
~Many features seem “over-hyped”
~Script templates promised in the package’s ‘Unlimited Edition’ are “nowhere to be found.”
~Promised customer service for the software appears nonexistent
With so many alternatives on the market, why bother?
*AI-Editing to Come Standard on Samsung Mobile Devices: In a move emblematic of the pervasive reach of AI writing, Samsung has announced that all of its mobile devices with keyboards will come standard with AI editing.
That will ensure that users will automatically have an AI editor on board with every app they use.
Powering the AI editing will be software from Grammarly — one of the most popular AI editing tools on the market today.
The deal gives eligible Samsung mobile users access to Grammarly’s basic edition — with an option to pay to upgrade to Grammarly’s premium edition.
*Auto-Writing a Long-Form Article With AI — In Just 20 Minutes: While AI writers powered by GPT-3 are generally notoriously ineffective in writing long-form articles, a guide to Copy.AI has come-up with a solution.
In this video, the AI guide demonstrates how to generate a long-form blog post using Copy.AI in just 20 minutes.
It’s an absolutely excellent solution to pulling-off long-form, AI-generated writing — at least when it comes to creating generic-topic articles.
The expert user’s secret: Generating just a paragraph-or-two to begin an article, doing a little editing on what’s produced — and then continuing on with the same piecemeal approach to ultimately put together a polished, long-form post.
Fortunately, some of that editing can be done with Copy.AI.
If you don’t like the tone or take on a particular sentence, for example, you can drop that single sentence back into Copy.AI, have the AI writer massage the phrasing — and trigger Copy.AI to produce alternatives to that single sentence.
One caveat: The long-form blog post auto-created by Copy.AI was very generic in nature.
Clocking in at 1,400-plus words and featuring tips on writing an SEO-friendly blog, the post’s length was impressive, for sure.
But the hard fact is, it’s much tougher to auto-generate a long-form blog post or article on a highly specific topic with today’s predictive text AI writers — no matter what workarounds you use .
*A Scribe on AI: How AI Made Me a Better Writer: Count Alex Kantrowitz among those who are all-in on AI-generated writing.
Observes Kantrowitz: “Over the past two years, I’ve adopted AI software at every opportunity and can report that the productivity gain is absurd.
“AI has helped me cut down on menial work and spend more time on creativity — realizing a long-prophesied promise about the technology.
“It’s also teaching me to write tighter and with more precision, and it’s shockingly good in this regard.
“Some ‘experts’ say AI will replace writers. That’s far off.
“Instead, it will make us better.”
*Online Meeting: Augmenting Fiction Writing With AI: Creative writers looking for a quick-study on AI fiction-writing tools will want to check-out this get-together on Meetup.
The November 18 talk will be squired by Melissa Roemele, a research scientist at RWS Language Weaver.
Roemele’s work focuses on how computer automation is deployed in storytelling.
*Text Tone and Sentiment Analyzer Snares $8 Million in Funding: Instoried — a firm with software that analyzes and reworks writing to better appeal to its target audience — is flush with a new round of funding.
Instoried uses GPT-3 — supercomputer-driven AI predictive software — to fine-tune marketing copy.
It can also be licensed and integrated into any platform.
*Microsoft 365 Adding More AI: New tools coming to Microsoft 365 include AI-powered predictive assistance.
That includes auto-suggestions to attach additional files and documents when sharing files with colleagues.
And the upgrade will also suggest auto-completion of pertinent data — such as frequent flyer numbers or specific messages — when users are working with text in Microsoft Teams.
*AI-Powered Plagiarism: A Growing Cancer at Colleges and Universities?: Two Canadian scholars worry that the easy availability of AI-generated writing tools is undermining academic integrity.
“Advancements in AI technology have led to new tools, products and services being offered to writers to improve content and efficiency.
“As these improve, soon entire articles or essays might be generated and written entirely by artificial intelligence.
“In schools, the implications of such developments will undoubtedly shape the future of learning, writing and teaching,” observe Michael Mindzak, an assistant professor of education at Brock University and Sarah Elaine Eaton, an assistant professor at the University of Calgary who specializes in academic integrity and plagiarism prevention.
*AI Big Picture: Some AI Experts ‘Spooked’ By Their Own Prowess: Editors and writers uneasy about the growing automation of the written word have surprising company: Many of the computer scientists helping invent those AI writing tools.
Observes Nicola Davis, a writer for the Guardian: “A scientist who wrote a leading textbook on artificial intelligence has said experts are ‘spooked’ by their own success in the field, comparing the advance of AI to the development of the atom bomb.”
Adds Stuart Russell, founder, Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence — and the AI expert sounding the alarm: “It reminds me a little bit of what happened in physics, where the physicists knew that atomic energy existed.
“They could measure the masses of different atoms.
“And they could figure out how much energy could be released if you could do the conversion between different types of atoms.
“And then it happened — and they weren’t ready for 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.