Now, AI Will Write Phone Texts for You, Too
Just when you thought AI writing couldn’t get any more convenient, Google has released a prototype tool that enables you to use AI to auto-create and send text messages on your Android smartphone.
Dubbed ‘Magic Compose,’ the new tool creates text messages based — in part — on previous text messages that you’ve sent with your smartphone.
Users can choose from a number of AI-generated text messages in response to a text.
And they can also choose a preferred text writing style — such as ‘chill,’ ‘excited,’ or ‘Shakespeare.’
Observes writer Emma Roth: “Microsoft also rolled-out a similar feature in its keyboard app, SwiftKey.
“This allows you to select the Bing icon within the app’s toolbar to compose text messages and emails, as well as change the tone, format, and length of the suggested messages.”
In other AI-generated writing news:
*In-Depth Guide: With LongShot AI, It’s Always Truth O’Clock: AI early adopters worried about AI writers that sometimes ‘make-up’ facts as they write may want to check-out LongShot AI.
The new AI writer is specifically designed to ensure that any writing it auto-generates is also fact-checked.
It’s one of a number of new AI writers offering the feature.
Writer Emily Brookes’ take on LongShot AI: It delivers the goods and is easy to use.
Observes Brookes: “Simply enter your content into Longshot AI’s Fact-Checking tool, and it will let you know whether it is factually accurate or not.
“It even provides you with links to authoritative sites to support its claims.”
On the downside, LongShot AI also can run quite slowly and be somewhat pricey with heavy use, Brookes adds.
*Getting the Most from ChatGPT: An Official Guide from the Maker: OpenAI has released a new primer for people who are looking to become power users of ChatGPT.
The easy-to-read guide focuses on how to put together the best Prompts for ChatGPT — the conversational-style commands that users type into the AI writer to generate the text they’re looking for.
Bottom line: This is a very thorough primer and valuable reading for anyone looking to master ChatGPT and similarly programmed AI writers.
*When Bots Build Brands: 51% of Marketers Using AI: More than half of all marketers are already using generative AI — such as AI writing — and 53% believe it’s a game-changer, according to a new survey from Salesforce.
The software titan surveyed 1,000+ marketers for its report and also found that 60% of marketers believe generative AI will markedly change their roles at their organizations.
Researchers also found that 71% of marketers believe generative AI will eliminate busy work. And 70% believe generative AI tools will boost their productivity.
*Scary Movie: Why Hollywood Fears Generative AI: Hollywood writers and actors fear that AI’s ability to ‘learn’ from hundreds of scripts or movies will make it difficult for them to cry ‘plagiarism.’
Observes writer Will Bedingfield: “If (writers) own the rights, they can seek recourse or compensation if their work is scraped by large language models — or LLMs — but only if the resulting work is deemed a reproduction or derivative of their script.”
Adds Daniel Gervais, professor of intellectual property and AI law, Vanderbilt University: “If the AI has learned from hundreds of scripts or more, this is not very likely.”
*IQ Make-Over for WordPress: Top AI Plugins: Given that 43% of sites on the Web are powered by WordPress, it’s no wonder developers are working overtime to churn-out AI plugins for the tool.
Top Plugins Recommended by MarkTechPost include:
~WP AI Assistant, an AI-powered chatbot for your Web site
~Voicer, an app that turns text into synthesized speech
~RankMath, for AI-powered SEO
*To AI or Not to AI: CNET Writers Have Questions: Writers and other media creators at CNET are leery of the publisher’s newly released plans for using AI-generated media on its Web site.
After CNET began using AI-authored articles last year, media creators at the company unionized.
Now, the galvanized group plans to negotiate with CNET on how the publisher plans to use AI writing and similar on its Web site.
A key demand: The option for writers to remove bylines on articles featuring AI-generated material that makes them uncomfortable.
*ChatGPT and The Road Ahead: Wallet-Friendly Wit: The news on ChatGPT just keeps getting better.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — the maker of ChatGPT — says his primary goal is to make the tool’s AI software run cheaper and faster.
Observes writer Raza Habib: “In general, OpenAI’s aim is to drive the cost of intelligence down as far as possible.”
Sounds like a plan.
*Swipe Right for AI Delight: AI Chatting Companions a Hit: Smartphone lovers craving AI companions that can chat have catapulted Character.AI into the limelight.
The AI firm’s smartphone app — which enables you to create, customize and chat with an AI companion on your smartphone — was downloaded 1.7 million times during its first week on the market.
Observes writer Sarah Perez: “Interest in Character.AI has a lot to do with its founders.
“The Palo Alto–based startup was created by Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, AI experts who previously led a team of researchers at Google that built LaMDA — Language Model for Dialogue Applications — a language model that helps power conversational AI experiences.”
*AI Big Picture: Blue Skies Ahead for Job Seekers, Says ChatGPT Maker: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agrees AI will take-out a significant number of jobs in coming years.
But he adds new types of jobs will also be created by the tech.
Observes Altman: “Some jobs are going to go away. But there will be new, better jobs that are difficult to imagine.”
Of course, getting from here-to-there will be tough if you’re staring at a 30-year mortgage and hoping to put three kids through college.
That’s especially true if you see your career disappearing while those difficult-to-imagine jobs have yet to appear on the horizon.
This article also features a number of other perspectives Altman offered on AI while promoting ChatGPT in India.
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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.