Socrates in Silicon

Researchers have tricked everyday readers into believing that AI is as smart as a philosopher.

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Says Eric Schwitzgebel, one of the researchers: “We might be approaching a future in which machine outputs are sufficiently humanlike that ordinary people start to attribute real sentience to machines.”

The research team pulled-off the stunt by having AI writer GPT-3 ingest the works of philosopher Daniel Dennet – and then answer philosophical questions posed to it.

The result: The answers from GPT-3 sounded so authentic, even experts in philosophy often could not distinguish computer-generated responses from Dennet’s own responses.

In other AI-generated writing news:

*In-Depth Guide: WriterX: Entry level AI writing tools continue to multiply like rabbits.

One of the latest of the liter is WriterX.

Price is one of its attractive features: For $9/month, you can auto-generate up to 20,000 words with the tool.

This post offers the company’s detailed pitch on its auto-writer.

*Down on the Farm: Writing Country Lyrics With AI: Rising country music star Anna Vaus scored some accolades on YouTube after recording a country song with lyrics conjured by an AI writer.

Even so, for now, Vaus says she’ll stick with her preferred method of coming up with verses: Working with a human collaborator.

But Vaus does see some songwriters and musicians considering teaming-up with AI.

Says Vaus: “The future could look a little different.”

*Email Software Maker Bolts-On AI Writing: Add Benchmark Email to the growing list of email marketing platforms adding AI writing to their mix.

The new AI writing module, dubbed ‘Smart Content,’ is designed to enable marketers to auto-generate email marketing content – or rewrite existing content.

Says Jonathan Herrick, CEO, Polaris Software – the makers of Benchmark Email: “We see AI as the future of sales and marketing software.

“Time is a precious resource and marketers need a way to create compelling content quickly.”

For more on using AI to help power email marketing, check-out, “AI Personalized Newsletters: Connecting With Readers on an Ever-Deepening Level,” by Joe Dysart.

*Q&A With an AI-Powered SEO Toolmaker: The Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute offers an up-close interview with the maker of WordLift in this piece.

Valentina Izzo, marketing content manager, WordLift, explains the tool’s secret sauce: “Most SEO tools provide insight into how to improve a Web site.

“WordLift creates a knowledge graph and automates some of these SEO tasks to help a Web site rank.

“We call it agentive SEO: From analyzing search intent to creating content, from building internal links to improving on-page user interaction.”

*AI Writer Tools: Conjur an Article Image — Simply by Describing It: Writer Luciano Sphere says he’s found a new tool that dreams-up one-of-a-kind images for his stories with just a bit of text input.

Dubbed Dall-E-2, an experimental app from OpenAI, the tool has been turning heads in the graphics arts community for months now.

Experimental use of Dall-E-2 is by invitation only.

You can apply for an invitation via the OpenAI blog.

*AI-Generated Report Firm Snags $20 Million in New Funding: Evidence Partners, a provider of AI-enabled literature review automation software, just snagged $20 million in new funding.

The AI platform is used by research organizations to generate transparent, audit-ready, regulatory compliant literature reviews.

For an in-depth, 2022 look at AI-generated business reports, check-out, “Company Reports That Write Themselves,” by Joe Dysart.

*Corto AI: The Science of Movie Scriptwriting: Yet another team of programmers is looking to crack-the-code on using AI to help write Hollywood movie scripts.

This piece looks at Corto AI — a tool that “analyzes scripts and provides feedback on how the content will resonate with different audiences,” according to writer Trung Phan.

Yves Bergquist, CEO, Corto AI, says a number of Hollywood studios are already using the tool in the hopes of guaranteeing creation of a sure-fire blockbuster.

*Free AI Writing Service Available: Programmers and others looking to play around with the potential of a high-powered AI writer can do so for free with Alpha.

The Web site enables anyone with a yen for AI-generated writing to punch in some phrases and play around with the results.

The community gravitating to Alpha is growing with new contributors from Google, Amazon, AnyScale and other AI insiders, according to the research group behind the Web site.

*AI Big Picture: China Looking to Use AI as a Mind Reader:
It was only a matter of time before we learned China is looking for ways to use AI to oppress its citizens.

That time is now, according to writer Rupendra Brahambhatt,

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Observes Brahambhatt: “Researchers from the Hefei Comprehensive National Science Centre in Anhui, China claim to have developed a technology that would allow the Chinese Communist Party to test the loyalty of its members.”

The dystopian technology will be used to detect party members whose thoughts stray from what the party considers acceptable, Brahambhatt adds.

Big minds.

Small hearts.

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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.

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