New Tool Personalizes Autowriter To Your Preferences
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has rolled-out a new tool that customizes the tech to your writing preferences.
The upgrade is designed for users who tend to use the same ChatGPT prompts — or commands to render specific kinds of text — over and over again.
That means a blogger who repeatedly requests ChatGPT to return, say, a completed post featuring a humorous writing tone, specific citations from the Web and five, suggested post titles could theoretically program-in all those requests using the customizing tool — and never worry about making those requests again.
The tool is also extremely easy to use: You simply give ChatGPT a little background about yourself as a user in a dialog box that’s offered for input.
Then, in a second dialog box, you offer the tool specific instructions on how you’d like ChatGPT to implement that frame-of-reference.
For example: VentureBeat used the tool by typing in the first dialog box: “I’m a novelist writing a new work of science fiction.
“Please keep in mind each character’s motivations, personalities, and relationships in mind as you build the story.”
Then, Venture Beat typed character descriptions into the second dialog box.
Observes writer Carl Franzen: “The raw results were technically and grammatically sound, although clearly short of the unique writing voice and rigor we’d expect from a published novel — for now.”
Currently, the customizing tool is only available with ChatGPT Plus — available at $20/month.
In other analysis of AI-generated writing news:
*In-Depth Guide: GoogAI: Writer Julius Wali offers a thorough look at GoogAI — a new interface to Google’s AI writing and similar tools.
Observes Wali: “With its impressive range of features and benefits, GoogAI empowers individuals and businesses to harness the power of artificial intelligence in generating stunning images, videos, Web sites, code — and even answering queries in real-time.”
“This comprehensive review aims to delve into the various aspects of GoogAI, exploring its features, benefits, and potential applications.”
*Extra! Extra! Google Shops Auto-News-Writer to Media: Google is reportedly hawking a new AI writer specifically designed to auto-generate news stories.
The tool, dubbed ‘Genesis,’ works by ingesting data it finds on the Web and then spitting back news stories based on that info.
Theoretically, news organizations using the tool — along with other commonly available automation tools — can, for example:
~Record a State of the Union speech made by President Biden, summarize his key points and then spit-out a news summary of the speech — including quotes from Biden — in a matter of minutes
~Record an earnings call made by any number of businesses and corporations, summarize the key points and then spit-out a news summary of the speech — including quotes from the company exec squiring the call — in a matter of minutes
~Source a video of a county commission meeting freshly posted on the Web, summarize the key points made by various commissioners and then spit-out a news summary of the speech — including quotes from one or more commisioners at the meeting — in a matter of minutes
Essentially, as with most AI, the use of Genesis by news outlets would only be limited — to a great degree — by the imagination of the editors and journalists using it.
*Associated Press and OpenAI: The News Revolution Will Be Algorithmically Generated: AP has joined forces with the maker of ChatGPT — OpenAI — to explore how the tech can be used to automate news production.
With the deal, AP gets to tap the AI expertise of OpenAI to develop news automation tools.
In exchange, OpenAI gets access to AP’s archive of news stories — which dates back to the 1800’s.
OpenAI plans to use those news stories to further train ChatGPT and similar tech — and ultimately make its AI even smarter.
*ChatGPT Ups-the-Ante: Twice the Wit, Half the Wait: Subscribers to ChatGPT Plus are now able to use its smartest autowriting engine — GPT-4 — twice-as-long as first offered.
The autowriting engine, which does all the heavy lifting when it comes to automating prose, essentially renders the kind of writing you’d get from a really smart college junior — at least with my use.
In comparison, ChatGPT’s base-level autowriting engine — GPT-3.5 — spits back text you’d expect from a really smart ninth-grader — again, in my experience.
ChatGPT users can switch back-and-forth between the two autowriting engines with a single mouse-click.
Under the new guidelines, GPT-4 — which requires a ChatGPT Plus $20/month subscription — can be tasked with 50 prompts before users are required to wait three hours before using it again.
Previously, access to GPT-4 was shut down for three hours after using it with 25 prompts.
*Microsoft CoPilot $30, Peanuts Extra: Microsoft is currently testing an AI assistant based on ChatGPT tech that can autowrite, auto-create PowerPoint presentations, automate analysis of spreadsheets and more.
Dubbed ‘CoPilot,’ the tool is slated to pop-up as an offering in Microsoft 365, the company’s cloud-based office productivity suite.
Observes writer Dan Gallagher: The company “also said it would introduce a version of its chatbot for the Bing search engine specially designed for business customers.”
Plus, Microsoft plans to “team-up with Meta Platforms to make the Facebook parent’s AI language model available to developers who are building software on Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing platform,” Gallagher adds.
*Please Raise Your Tray Tables to Their Upright Position: MS Windows To Get Its Own CoPilot: Windows users will soon see a new AI assistant that can ‘live’ on their taskbars — dubbed CoPilot — that can be used for autowriting, summarizing, rewriting, researching and more.
Observes Panos Panay, head of Windows and Devices, Microsoft: “Once open, the Windows Copilot sidebar stays consistent across your apps, programs, and windows — always available to act as your personal assistant.
“It makes every user a power user, helping you take action, customize your settings and seamlessly connect across your favorite apps.”
*AI and SEO Tools– More Plentiful Than Dad Jokes at a Barbeque: Talk about specialization.
There’sAnAIForThat reports there are nearly 100 AI tools now specifically designed to optimize blogs, articles, Web site copy and other text for the search engines.
Their goal: To ensure links to your text appear higher-up in search engine returns.
For the foreseeable future, it appears new AI tools for writing will continue to crop-up at a frenzied pace.
*Yes Virginia, Sometimes Santa Does Come Early: One of the World’s Most Powerful AutoWriting Engines, Now Free: Facebook parent company Meta has released the code driving its powerful autowriting engine to the world, free-of-charge.
Comparable in prowess to the autowriting engines driving ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, the move represents a godsend to researchers, developers and companies looking to write their own applications based on the formidable tech.
Many AI writers currently on the market are merely interfaces that run atop powerful autowriting engines driven by supercomputers — like the one Meta is giving away access to for free.
A slew of AI autowriters, for example, are actually interfaces with helpful tools that run atop OpenAI’s autowriting engines GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.
Observe writers Mike Isaac and Cade Metz: “The technology, called LLaMA 2, provides everything anyone would need to build online chatbots like ChatGPT.
“LLaMA 2 will be released under a commercial license, which means developers can build their own businesses using Meta’s underlying AI to power them — all for free.”
Like similar autowriting engines from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and Hugging Face, LLaMA 2 can also be used to automate the writing of code, auto-generate images, analyze data and more.
*Big Picture: Lambs to the Slaughter: With AI, Most Outsourced Computer Programmers From India Jobless in Two Years: Apparently, AI evangelists who insist AI is little more than a cuddly, friendly office buddy — always there to assist you but never daring to rob you of your job — have some explaining to do.
According to a high profile AI CEO, most freelance computer programmers in India are doomed to lose their jobs to AI within the next two years.
The bright side for workers: In countries with very strong labor unions, AI will have a tougher time shoving programmers aside.
Says Emad Mostaque, CEO, Stability AI: In India “outsourced coders up to level three programmers will be gone in the next year or two.
“Whereas in France, you’ll never fire a developer.”
For computer programmers, the irony must bite deep: The same tech many furiously spent coding into the wee hours of the morning is now taking away their jobs.
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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.