ChatGPT the Victor Against Human Test Group
GPT-4 — the underlying AI software that powers ChatGPT’s most advanced writing and other uses — has bested a test group of humans in a creativity competition.
Creativity researcher Erik Guzik and his team uncovered GPT-4’s prowess after pitting the creative chops of GPT-4 against those of 24 undergraduate students.
All of the students — along with GPT-4 — competed by taking the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking.
Observes Guzik: “GPT-4 scored in the top 1% of test-takers for the originality of its ideas.
“From our research, we believe this marks one of the first examples of AI meeting or exceeding the human ability for original thinking.”
*In-Depth Guide: Shoot-Out — ChatGPT, Claude, Bing and Bard: Forbes is rolling-out a three-part article series promising to examine the latest in AI writing tools.
This first installment offers a great compare/contrast of four of the top AI writers on the market right now.
Bottom line: This is a really helpful guide — and includes ‘best use’ suggestions for each tool.
*Pimp My ChatGPT: Best Plugins for the AI Writer: Writer Andrew Wilson has put together his list of ChatGPT plugins he thinks are currently tops.
Wilson’s picks for writers include:
~ChatWithPDF: A tool that enables you to chat with a .PDF to glean insights, research and the like
~VideoInsights: A plugin that auto-summarizes the narration underpinning videos
~Link Reader: A tool that enables ChatGPT to read text found at any link you type in
Bonus: Wilson also offers a handy — gratefully brief — primer in this piece on how to install a ChatGPT plugin.
*Of Pixels and Plotlines: New AI-Written Novella Uncomfortably Competent for Some: While untold numbers of ChatGPT users and others have tried to publish AI-generated fiction, Stephen Marche’s new AI-written novella is different.
Marche is an already established fiction writer who decided to try his hand at AI writing — and has scored with a novella that hangs together.
Observes writer Jane Sullivan: “Most of the (AI) fiction is laughably bad.
“‘Death of an Author,’ however, is a perfectly readable story.
“I’ve read an extract, which comes across as a slightly clunky Dan Brown-style adventure.”
Marche reportedly used AI writing tools ChatGPT, Sudowrite and Cohere to put together his work.
Despite Marche’s success, many writers recoil at the idea of fiction generated by AI writing.
*Text-to-Song: Now a Thing, Too: Someday — most likely in the near future — we’ll have a chip in our brains that will write a song for us right after we have the notion.
But for now, we still need to engage in the arduous task of typing a few words into the new app ‘Stable Audio,’ triggering the code — and then waiting a few seconds for the song to generate.
Observes writer Jack Revell: “The audio generated by the program ranges from sound effects — like a door slamming or an explosion — through to fully-fledged songs of any genre imaginable.
“The tracks it can produce are music-only and seem better suited for backing music or the kind of generic music you hear over TikTok videos.”
*Lost in Translation?: For Multilingual Marketers, There’s an AI for That: Businesses that have the staff to deal with a customer base that speaks multiple languages may want to check-out Smartcat.
It’s a new AI writing tool that auto-translates company product descriptions, marketing copy and similar into multiple languages.
Smartcat is also designed to learn from every use so that over time, the brand’s voice becomes second nature.
*AI and the Law: Not Your Grandpa’s NDA: AI software that can autowrite an NDA for you has been embraced by many key players in industry.
The maker — oneNDA — reports its autowriting tool is being used by more than 1,000 companies, including American Express, Google and Panasonic.
This post also includes an easy-to-follow primer on how to use the tool.
*Desperately Seeking Product Descriptions: Amazon AI Has You Covered: Amazon has made good on its promise to release free AI tools to help its third-party vendors autowrite product descriptions.
Observes Robert Tekiela, vice president, Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems: “With our new generative AI models, we can infer, improve and enrich product knowledge at an unprecedented scale and with dramatic improvement in quality, performance and efficiency.”
*Imaginary Friends Get Real: 4.2 Million Users — Albeit, Still Zero Playdates: Character.AI — a chatbot service that generates custom characters that chat with users via conversational text — now has 4.2 million users.
Observes writer Sarah Perez: “Character.ai is attracting a much younger demographic than ChatGPT and other AI apps.
“On the Web, for example, Character.ai draws in nearly 60% of its audience from the 18- to 24-year-old age bracket.”
One caveat: The article fabricates a false competition between Character.AI and ChatGPT.
Both are very different products –a classic apples-to-oranges mis-comparison.
*AI Big Picture: Google’s Take on AI — A Peek Inside the Mind of Its CEO: This piece from Wired offers an informative Q&A on Google’s long-term thinking on AI.
One gem: Despite criticism from some that Google — a leader in AI — was punked by upstart OpenAI with its release of ChatGPT, Google CEO Sundar Pichai still believes Google’s careful approach to AI product releases is warranted.
Observes Pichai: “People come to us with a huge sense of trust—they come to Google and type, “What Tylenol dosage for a 3-month-old?”
“You can imagine the responsibility that comes with getting it right.
“And so we were definitely a bit more cautious there.”
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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.