Upgraded ChatGPT Thinks at the PhD Level
OpenAI is out with a new upgrade to ChatGPT that features extremely advanced, in-depth thinking — and outperforms PhD students in physics, chemistry and biology.
The software undergirding the new upgrade — dubbed OpenAI o1 — also offers head-turning new performance highs in math and computer coding.
While the jury is still out on the upgrade’s impact on ChatGPT’s automated writing skills, people who make lots of money every day by relying heavily on writing — i.e., lawyers — will want to take a close look at this enhancement.
The reason: According to OpenAI’s in-house tests, this latest version of its AI software scored 95-out-of-100 on the Law School Admissions Test.
Yikes.
In other news and analysis on AI writing:
*In-Depth Guide: The Top 50 AI Writing Tools to Try: Copywriters looking for a round-up on the latest AI tools designed to make their jobs easier will want to take a look at this piece.
It offers a great overview of the most popular — and most groundbreaking AI tools — in their writing genre.
In addition to well-known AI writers, the guide also explores lesser-known, niche tools, including:
~Writerly, which includes a generative AI Chrome extension that helps users extract ideas from articles during browsing and generates content briefs for writers
~GetGenie, a WordPress plugin that uses AI to replace over 10 different apps.
~TextCortex, an AI Writer designed to accommodate your distinct writing style and singular writing requirements
*Goodbye, Ramblin’ Rose: New WordPress Tool Goes for Writing Clarity: The maker of WordPress has come out with a new AI tool designed to make your posts clearer and more succinct.
Dubbed ‘Write Brief with AI,’ the tool alerts users if their prose uses too many words — or if their wording ‘lacks confidence.’
The new tool could significantly improve writing on Web sites worldwide, given that 43% of all Web sites run on WordPress.
*ESPN AI To Cover Women’s Soccer: Because Mansplaining Just Didn’t Cut It: Sports news juggernaut ESPN has decided to add AI-written stories to its coverage mix.
So far, the plan is to limit AI-generation of prose to recaps of matches in the National Women’s Soccer League and the Premier Lacrosse League.
Observes writer Tom Jones: “The fear among living and breathing journalists is that this is a slippery slope — and that AI is taking their jobs.”
*Writing Career Suicide — Now With Algorithms: Writer Jack Apollo George has been granted the dubious honor of training AI to make himself obsolete.
Specifically, George is inputting examples of his own writing to help AI chatbots express themselves more eloquently.
Observes George: Working for an AI company as a writer is “a little like being told you are going to be paid a visit by Dracula — and instead of running for the hills, you stayed-in and laid the table.”
*AI to College Writing Centers: Nice Knowing You: Higher education continues to struggle with its love/hate relationship with AI — including some writing centers that are offering new courses in AI-powered writing.
Observes Sherry Wynn Perdue, president, International Writing Centers Association: “I see this as a real opportunity for writing centers to show leadership if they’re given an opportunity.”
But not everyone is happy with the embrace of AI at the university level.
Observes writer Maggie Hicks: “Some writing instructors worry, though, that the new tools may tempt colleges to rely too heavily on the technology — or even eliminate writing centers entirely.”
*AI-Written Academic Papers: Now Easier to Spot Than a Bad Wig?: Researcher Ahmed Abdeen Hamed has helped develop a new app designed to expose academic research papers written with AI.
Dubbed xFakeSci, the experimental tool has turned-in accuracy rates of up to 94%.
Observes Hamed: “Because I work with medical publications, clinical trials, online resources and mining social media, I’m always concerned about the authenticity of the knowledge somebody is propagating.”
*Update on AI and Email Marketing: Turning ‘Unsubscribe’ Into ‘Tell Me More’: Shopify has put together a handy guide on the state-of-the-art of AI in email marketing.
Turns-out, many of the same email marketing tasks once performed by humans are now easily handled by AI, including:
~Smart segmentation
~Email personalization
~Subject line suggestions
~Content creation
*Fake Writers, Real Profits: Book Writers Plagued by AI Rip-Offs: Many writers selling their books on Amazon say they’re increasingly finding AI rip-offs of their work for sale.
The primary culprits: Suspiciously prolific ‘writers’ who pump-out hundreds of titles per year — but don’t seem to exist in the real world.
Observes writer Kevin Maimann: One of the most prominent suspect authors is “Mari Silva, who has 532 titles on a vast range of spiritual and cultural topics spanning world history, but no visible online presence outside of a vague Amazon author bio with a generic silhouetted photo of a woman.”
*AI Big Picture: AI — Now With Emotions: Finally, Robots That Understand Your Existential Dread: A psychologist who specializes in measuring emotion has come out with a new app that imbues AI chatbot voices with much more emotion.
Dubbed Hume AI, the app is also designed to enable various AI chatbots to listen to queries with much greater empathy.
Observes psychologist and Hume AI co-founder Alan Cowen: “We specialize in building empathic personalities that speak in ways people would speak — rather than stereotypes of AI assistants.”
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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.