Google’s Latest AI Creates a Poem From a Simple Image
In yet another startling addition to AI creativity, Google has released a new tool that auto-generates a poem from an image.
Dubbed ‘Poem Postcards,’ the AI merely needs to look at a sketch, illustration, photo or similar to automatically generate its take on what’s being portrayed.
Even better: You can tweak the tool to create a poem in your favorite format — such as a sonnet, limerick, ode, elegy or haiku.
Observes writer Emma Roth: “Google says it generates the poems using its PaLM 2 large language model, which it launched earlier this year.”
*In-Depth Guide: Working It: Getting Higher Quality Writing From ChatGPT With Artful Use: If you’re looking for a way to finesse higher quality text from ChatGPT, this is the video for you.
Expert ChatGPT user Corrie Who Writes has put together an extremely informative, 13-minute demo that shows you how to quickly train and manipulate ChatGPT to create a highly personalized, much more creative piece of writing.
Some cool applications of Corrie’s personal method include:
~Higher-quality press releases
~Higher-quality Facebook posts
~Higher-quality emails
~Higher-quality YouTube scripts
~Higher-quality writing tone and style guides
Bottom line: This demo is — without doubt — one of the most valuable videos a writer can view right now on how to get the most from ChatGPT.
*Homogenized Advice: New Egg AI Cracks-the-Code on Pro-and-Con Product Summaries: Tech retailer New Egg has rolled-out a new review service that summarizes the pros-and-cons of a product based on the countless reviews it’s received.
Observes writer Emma Roth: “The feature leverages the technology behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT and lives within the ‘Reviews’ tab toward the bottom of a product’s page.
“There, you’ll see a list of pros-and-cons that you can click on, allowing you to filter reviews by specific keywords and see where the AI got its information from.
“Below that, you’ll also see an AI-generated summary that combines all the key pieces of feedback into a short paragraph.”
*Scripts-in-Seconds: Because Waiting is So ‘Before AI:’ Marketers looking for an AI tool specially designed for making marketing videos will want to check-out Vidyard.
The platform has released a new AI tool that automatically generates a script for your video pitch.
Dubbed ‘Script Generator,’ the tool is designed to spit-out a marketing video script for you — using just a bit of input — in just a few seconds.
*AI21 a Star Innovator: AI21 — maker of the popular Wordtune AI writer — has been ranked among the top 50 most innovative companies working in generative AI.
AI21 made the list — put together by CB Insights — by helping lead the pack in fostering a paradigm shift in how companies innovate, according to Deepashri Varadharajan, director of AI research, CB Insights.
Besides WordTune, AI21 also markets its own autowriting engine — Jurassic-2 — which runs on a supercomputer.
*Amazon Shammed Into Removing Rip-Off Books: Retail goliath Amazon has agreed to remove books falsely claiming to be written by an established author — but only after being shammed on Twitter.
Initially, Amazon refused to remove the books from its online store after author Jane Friedman complained to the retailer that she had never written the books and that the works were frauds.
Observes writer Jason Nelson: “After she took her case to Twitter — earning the backing of the Authors Guild — Amazon relented early this morning.”
Amazon: Bringing new meaning to the phrase, ‘the-ends-justify-the-means.’
*Back to the Bluebooks: Academic Crackdown on ChatGPT Use: Fed-up by the widespread use of AI writers by students, many universities are returning to testing via in-class writing.
Observes Bonnie Mackellar, a computer science professor at St. John’s University: “There is going to be a big shift back to paper-based tests.
“I hear colleagues in humanities courses saying the same thing: It’s back to the blue books.”
*Please Hold for Our Bot: Humans Have Left the Conversation: The dream of some companies of never having to interface with another customer ever again just got a little closer.
SoundHound has released a new tool that auto-answers calls from customers using an AI-powered voice.
Fortunately for consumers, the system is also designed to relent and transfer them to a human being if the AI isn’t doing the trick.
*AI Evangelist: You May Never Need to Look at Another News Web Site Again: AI evangelist Charlie Beckett believes use of AI writers could become so commonplace, “you may never need to look at a news Web Site again, because all that stuff has been repurposed by ChatGPT (and similar).”
The silver lining for human editors and reporters may be a continuing hunger for extremely high-quality work.
Says Beckett: “In a world of AI-driven journalism, your human-driven journalism will be the standout.
“You’ve got better journalists, cleverer journalists, more creative journalists who do real reporting — that will be where you stand out.”
Sounds good in theory.
But one wonders how much hunger for high-quality work will really exist in say three-to-five years, after AI writing and similar has cornered the market on the lowest common denominator audience — and then some.
As Beckett observes: “All news is data” — which in the hands of AI writers is simply raw material for any number of news stories that can be “reformatted in any way that you wish.”
*Big Picture AI: You Have Real Friends? How Analog: The stuff of sci-fi movies just a few years ago, AI companions — driven by technology similar to ChatGPT — are now a thing.
An early pioneer in the space — Character.AI — was downloaded 1.7 million times in the first week of its release and has been going strong ever since.
The popularization of highly sophisticated artificial ‘friends,’ of course, poses real concern over the tech’s long term impact on human relations.
But for now, it’s all still fun-and-games.
Observes writer Prakriti Chanda: “Despite its machine identity, this tool’s output is remarkably human.”
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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.