Writers and others hungry for a technical peek at where AI is headed will want to check-out this new 38-minute video from the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute.
Featuring a number of AI writing experts, the guide features insights on the state-of-the art of supercomputer-driven autowriting engines like GPT-3 – the core of most AI writers on the market today.
Observes Cathy McPhillips, chief growth officer, Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute: “AI technology is changing at a record pace.
“You may not get all the content you want to create for your business with AI.
“But AI can help you achieve specific goals.”
AI writing experts featured in the video are:
~Mike Kaput, chief content officer, Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute
~Lisa Spira, head of content intelligence, Persado
~Jeff Coyle, chief strategy officer, Market Muse
~Christopher S. Penn, chief data scientist, Trust insights
In other AI-generated writing news:
*In-Depth Guide: AutoWriterPro: Tech Trends Zone offers its pitch on AutoWriterPro in this 12-minute video.
It’s a handy guide/test-drive, in that it shows — via numerous examples — the kinds of text the software generates using specific, text inputs.
The video is valuable to newcomers to AI writing, who will get an idea of how the tech works in real-time — and what they can expect from AutoWriterPro.
And old hands at AI writing can save time with this video to evaluate how AutoWriterPro stacks-up against their favorite AI writer — or AI writers.
One interesting feature of AutoWriterPro: It offers users the ability to auto-generate spoken word audio from any text it generates.
*With AI, Cheating on Student Essays a Cakewalk: Add Slate to the growing list of publications sounding the alarm on students using AI writing to churn-out student essays.
Observes Aki Peritze, a writer for Slate: “With a little bit of practice, a student can use AI to write his or her paper in a fraction of the time that it would normally take to write an essay.”
One work-around to thwart the easy cheating: More essays may need to be written in class, on-the-fly.
Observes Virginia Lee Strain, associate professor of English, University of Chicago: “AI is not a problem in the classroom when a student sits down with paper and pencil.”
*New AI a Matchmaker for Online Chats: LivePerson – a longtime provider of chat solutions for online retailers and other businesses – is now using AI to match the best company rep with any given customer.
The tech works by studying the history of a customer’s past experiences with the company – and company reps — and then pairing that customer with a company rep who seems to be the most promising pairing.
LivePerson is able to pull-off the matchmaking by using AI from Afiniti.
*New Series on Intro-to-AI-Writing Launches: CMS Wire has published its first in a series of articles on how marketers can get the most from AI writing.
Based on this first installment, the series promises to be extremely helpful to marketers who are new to AI writing and are looking for a detailed dive into the fundamentals.
CMS Wire has provided solid editorial in this space for years now.
So bookmarking this series is a no-brainer for any marketer looking to get up-to-speed on the latest in AI and copywriting.
*Review: Formulaic Writers Beware: AI is Coming for Your Job: Highly creative writers are safe from the threat of automated writing, according to writer Braveen Kumar.
But those simply cranking-out formulaic text may soon be replaced by a robot, Kumar adds.
Observes Kumar: “After spending over five hours testing an AI writer, I can confidently say the bottom 30% of writers are probably screwed.”
*Recommended ‘Readability’ Checkers for AI-Generated SEO Copy: Search Engine Journal has released a handy, up-to-date rundown on tools designed to optimize copy for high search engine returns.
These tools could help ease the tension virtually every writer feels when dealing with first-draft, SEO copy that is dull and unengaging.
SEO tools recommend changes in phrasing and structure that make search engines happy – but often render the resulting writing dull and less engaging.
One caveat: Each of these tools was designed by a person or group of people who may have a different idea than you about what makes copy readable, enjoyable, riveting and similar.
*New Report: State of Machine Translation 2022: AI-aided translation – feared by many as the grim reaper for thousands of translation jobs across-the-world – gets a fresh look from Intento in this report.
The study evaluates 45 vendors currently competing in the AI translation market and singles-out the top 16 AI translation solutions.
Says Konstantin Savenkov, CEO, Intento: “We published our first MT report back in 2017, when all you could quickly get were stock models from nine MT providers.
“Five years later, we see six times more available MT platforms, 10 times more language pairs, about the same x200 price difference — and new automated customization possibilities such as domain adaptation and custom glossaries.”
*Punching-up a Web Site Landing Page With AI: Marketing Technology Insights offers an updated look on how to use AI to dazzle visitors to Web site landing pages in this piece.
One solution: Using AI writer Anyword to rachet-up the engagement factor for any Web copy, according to the pub.
Anyword’s secret: Continually generate variations on a landing page’s writing, test the results – and then continually update that page with the best performing iteration, according to MTI.
*AI Big Picture: A Third of AI Scientists Fear AI Could Trigger a Global Disaster: When 36% of AI scientists surveyed warn that continued proliferation of AI could result in a worldwide doomsday, you have to wonder.
Unfortunately, that’s the take from a survey of 327 researchers who have recently co-authored papers on AI research and natural language processing.
How bad a catastrophe? Comparable to an all-out nuclear war, according to New Scientist.
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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.