‘Everyone Was Fooled’
Columnist Ian Warden fesses-up that he’s pulled-the-wool over everyone’s eyes: Half the columns he published this year were actually written by AI.
The upshot: “Not one reader detected any artificiality or anything sub-human” in the columns machined by AI, according to Warden.
Yucks aside, the ruse goes a long way toward refuting the yowls of many who insist AI will never replace human writers, AI will never advance beyond simple data-driven stories and AI will never steal the jobs of sophisticated bards who trade on wit, style and insight.
Observes Warden: “I have ended the experiment now — and this column you are reading is by the flesh-and-blood Ian — but conducted it to illustrate the ways in which AI begins to achieve things we used to smugly think only humans would ever be able to do.”
As a man much wiser than me once said: “Gulp.”
In other AI-generated writing news:
*ContentBot.AI: In-Depth Guide: Meltmail.com offers an in-depth look at one of the ever-increasing numbers of auto-writers vying for your dollar in this piece.
Meltmail.com’s takeaway: “Overall, ContentBot is very easy to use and it is able to produce content in a matter of only seconds.
“You won’t necessarily get the best content right away.
“But after a few more generations and edits, you will be able to arrive with high-quality and marketing-worthy copies.”
*Google Docs Adds Auto-Summary Help: Google Docs now has the ability to auto-summarize the docs you work with every day — including reports, reviews, briefs, policies and the like.
Specifically, the tech generates a one or two sentence summary of docs — as long as it’s confident the summary is accurate.
The summaries are auto-generated by users of Google Workspace and can be manually generated by other users of Google Docs.
*DocuSign Releases Auto-Contract Writer for Small Businesses: Small businesses now have an AI tool that can automatically write contracts for them — tech that larger enterprises have been using for some time now.
Dubbed ‘CLM Essentials,’ the tool is a watered-down version of a more sophisticated auto-contract writer from DocuSign.
Key features of the software include:
~Document generation template builder
~Contract process builder
~Integration with software suite Salesforce
*BodyGuard.ai Releases Anti-Toxic Text Moderator: Firms concerned about toxic content surfacing in their online communities now have another tool to screen-out that unwanted content.
Dubbed ‘BodyGuard.ai,’ the tool is designed to detect, flag and suppress harmful content, cyberharassment and hate speech.
Its maker claims the tool can detect and moderate over 95% of toxic content in less than 200 milliseconds.
It works with social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.
*Instoried’s ‘Empathy Enhancer’ Snares $10 Million in New Funding: Apparently, there’s money in AI editors that can enhance empathy in writing — about $10 million for AI writing tool Instoried, for example.
Company CEO Sharmin Ali says the software enables people to write original and more lively content, improve headlines and enhance empathy and tone.
*Associated Press: Now a Johnny Appleseed of AI Journalism: Add the Associated Press to the list of organizations driving the use of automated writing in small newsrooms.
The media outlet is offering a free online course in AI in journalism — available to all U.S. news outlets.
Featured will be live virtual workshops and recorded tutorials.
Says Aimee Rinehart, program manager of AP’s local news AI initiative: “We will be digging into a range of technologies and focusing on the pain points that AI and automation can help to alleviate at the local level.”
*EleutherAI Open-Sources Auto-Writer Engine: EleutherAI — a group of AI researchers determined to offer free automated writing to all takers — has open-sourced its AI writing engine.
Essentially, the latest version of the writing engine — GPT-NeoX-20b — is available for all to tinker with.
EleutherAI’s writing engine competes with the more powerful, more sophisticated — and more expensive — GPT-3 auto-text engine from OpenAI.
*A Wave of Billion Dollar Language AI Startups Is Coming: Rob Towes offers an extremely in-depth look at the coming gold rush in AI-generated writing and language apps in this piece.
Observes Towes: “We now stand at an exhilarating inflection point.
“Next-generation language AI is poised to make the leap from academic research to widespread real-world adoption — generating many billions of dollars of value and transforming entire industries in the years ahead.”
*AI Big Picture: AI’s Path for 2022: Look for more AI apps in 2002 that will dramatically solve extremely specific challenges, according to this forecast from CNBC.
Observes writer Sam Shead: “While AI still has a long way to go before anything like human-level intelligence is achieved, it hasn’t stopped the likes of Google, Facebook (Meta) and Amazon from investing billions of dollars into hiring talented AI researchers who can potentially improve everything from search engines and voice assistants to aspects of the so-called ‘metaverse.'”
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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.