While you’d be hard-pressed to find a news niche tinier than the sport of ping pong, you’d probably find it even tougher to attract 1.5 hits to the Web site that covers it.
Jochen Lang, CEO of MyTischtennis has done just that — with a little help from AI.
Lang’s secret: He uses AI-generated writing from AX Semantics.
The tech automates news coverage of table tennis matches hosted by five table tennis associations across Germany.
Lang’s winning approach: He takes the match data from the associations, runs it through AX Semantics AI-generated writing software and takes away a short news story on each match.
Says Lang: “The editorial offering has clearly struck a chord with users.
“Thanks to automated match reports, we have more traffic and 1.5 million readers per season.”
(For an in-depth look at how AI-generated writing from AX Semantics — and similar AI writing companies — is also used to auto-generate business reports, check out: “Company Reports That Write Themselves,” by Joe Dysart.)
In other AI-generated writing news:
*In-Depth Guide: ChibiAI — A Jasper Alternative: Furhan Reviews offers an in-depth guide to ChibiAI in this video — one of a steady stream of new auto-writers cropping up on the market.
Furhan’s take: ChibiAI relies on a unique algorithim — and offers a competitive and less expensive alternative to Jasper (formerly Jarvis) — one of the first pioneers of auto-writing based on predicive statistics AI.
Like a lot of video reviews of AI writers, Furhan gets into the nuts-and-bolts of generating copy with ChibiAI — offering a step-by-step guide on how to get the results you want.
(For an in-depth look at the current state of the market for AI writing tools, check-out, “Ultimate Guide: Artificial Intelligence Writing Software,” by Joe Dysart.)
*Google Docs Adds More AI Editing: Google is rolling out a new version of its Docs software, which offers even more automated editing of the writing process.
Users of the new upgrade will see suggestions for:
~Better word choice
~Use of the active — rather than the passive — voice
~More concise word choice
~’Woke’ word suggestions encouraging use of ‘more inclusive’ words or phrases
~Warnings on ‘inappropriate’ words
Suggestions will appear as you type — although you can disable the automated editing if you’d prefer.
*Small Newsrooms and AI?: Not So Much: Small news outlets are less apt to infuse their operations with AI — balking at its expense and time demands — according to a new study by the Associated Press.
Says Jim Kennedy, senior vice president of strategic planning, AP: “Many newsrooms spoke of staff turnover, frequently losing the one person who had been the driver of innovation.
“What’s more, current technology in local newsrooms is patchy and often does not sync.
“Adding still another layer to an already cumbersome technology stack can be out of the question for many newsrooms.”
AP has posted a free copy of the 56-page report online.
*Experimental AI Short Story Collaborator Released: A PhD candidate from an Australian university has put together a prototype tool that helps writers collaborate with AI to create a short story.
The premise: Human and machine will be able to write a short story more easily by engaging in an ongoing dialogue — aided by AI.
Says Rodolfo Ocampo, the researcher behind the tech: “The feedback that I received from users is that it helps overcome the blank slate problem, which is a big obstacle when starting to write, providing an initial spark that gets the creative process going.
“More broadly, it can also keep the creative flow going later in a project, giving you ideas that can help get you through moments where you get a bit stuck.”
*GPT-3 AI Writers: A Video Overview: Microsoft Technology Center in Bengaluru offers a quick discussion of key auto-writing and other uses of GPT-3 — a supercomputer-powered text generator — in this 12-minute video.
Microsoft is the sole licensor of GPT-3, created and maintained by OpenAI.
(For an in-depth look at GPT-3, check out: “GPT-3 and AI Writing: Stunning, if Imperfect,” by Joe Dysart.)
*Otter.ai Transcription Gets Upgrade: Otter.ai — a popular AI-powered speech-to-text transcriber — has some new features, including:
~Meeting Gems, which helps users create meeting highlights
~Screen Captures, which enable users to add a meeting slide, screenshot or other image to a transcription with one click
~Automatic Outline, which auto-generates a summary of a meeting transcribed by Otter.ai
*Microsoft Upgrades Its Translator: Microsoft’s tool for translating real-time conversations, documents, Web sites and more has gotten an upgrade.
Essentially the upgrade promises more accurate translations.
Says Xuedong Huang chief technology officer, Microsoft Azure: “Our goal is to help everyone and every organization on the planet to communicate better, and to achieve that goal there are really two important dimensions.
“We want the quality of translations to be as good as possible.
“And we want to support as many languages as possible.”
*Cortical.io Adds Contract Processing to its Auto-Docs Tool: Cortical.io has added auto-processing of contract documents to its intelligent document processing software.
Essentially, the upgrade enables Cortical.io to auto-generate meaningful insights from data it extracts from contracts and other complex documents.
“We are a company working in efficient AI,” Francisco Webber, CEO, Cortical.io., told VentureBeat.
“Now we have taken that technology to provide real-world tools,” Webber adds. “We have developed a highly efficient method of representing language.”
*AI Big Picture: Coming Soon: AI Apps You Can Create Yourself: Pioneers of new tools that enable you to create an AI app — with absolutely no programming skills needed — say its only a matter of time before virtually anyone can create their own AI application.
Essentially, the ‘no-code’ movement draws its inspiration from previous no-code products like WordPress — a popular Web authoring tool that enables users to build Web sites without writing a line of code.
A.I. is following a familiar progression, according to Jonathan Reilly, co-founder of Akkio, a no-code AI tool maker that enables users to forge AI-driven prediction tools.
Says Reilly: “First, it’s used by a small core of scientists.
“Then the user base expands to engineers who can navigate technical nuance and jargon.
“Finally, it’s made user-friendly enough that almost anyone can use 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.