Israeli start-up Amy has snagged $6 million in new funding for an AI tool that scrapes the Web to auto-generate brief reports about businesses.
Designed to help salespeople pitch business prospects knowledgeably, the tool pulls together info about a firm like job changes, funding, acquisitions and breaking news to create quick reports.
Says Nimrod Ron, CEO, Amy: “Amy’s customers can apply that information as an icebreaker — or to elevate the relationship throughout the meeting,” he added.
For more on AI software that auto-generates business reports, check out, “Company Reports That Write Themselves,” by Joe Dysart.
In other AI-generated writing news:
*Zoom Releases Real-Time, Voice-to-Text Translation for Business: Zoom One Business Plus – a premium version of Zoom for business – now features auto-translation for 10 languages.
Zoom’s auto-translation is also available with Zoom Enterprise and Zoom Enterprise Plus, two other business-grade versions of the video meeting service.
Supported languages are Simplified Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.
*New AI Social Media ‘Trend Analysis’ Tool Released: Yet another AI-powered tool for auto-analyzing social media conversations has popped-up on the market – this time from Synthesio.
Dubbed ‘Topic Modeling,’ the tool automatically scans, categorizes, and graphically represents analysis of hundreds of thousands of online conversations.
The tool’s target market is companies looking to unearth, monitor and analyze themes and trends prevalent in the consumer zeitgeist.
Says Synthesio CEO Heath Podvesker: ““Consumer trends emerge, take hold — then go out-of-style or evolve faster than most marketers and insights pros can keep up with.
“To meet our clients’ new needs, we evolved our solution beyond tracking consumer posts to actually identifying” new insights and ideas.”
*New AI Text Style Governor Released for Marketers: AI-generated writing firm Writer is helping Contentful – a digital authoring tool – standardize company writing styles.
The two have partnered to produce a solution that enables a company to develop a recognizable, consistent writing style across all the digital properties it uses.
The solution monitors company writers and others in real-time as they create text — prompting them to use company accepted writing style as needed.
Contentful expects the new tool will be greeted warmly by users who leverage its tech to create Web sites, mobile apps, digital displays and similar digital communications.
*Researchers Unveil Free Anti-Bias Tool: Researchers from across the globe have released a new tool that identifies news reports plagued by bias.
Dubbed ‘Dbias,’ the app red-flags what it perceives as biased writing – and then offers alternate phrasings it believes are more objective in perspective.
Observes Martin Anderson, a writer for Unite.AI: The system “uses various machine learning technologies and databases to develop a three-stage, circular workflow that can refine biased text until it returns an unbiased — or at least more neutral — version.”
*AI Empathy Help for Writers: Mpathic, an AI toolmaker looking to bring more empathy to business communications, just snared $4 million in new funding for its app.
The tech monitors business communications via text, email, phone calls and similar media – suggesting alternative phrasing when it detects messaging that could use more empathy.
One example: Mpathic suggests that an outburst like “Why does Nick schedule these meetings always at the last minute? Am I right?” might be more effective if rephrased with the more diplomatic “How do you feel about the meeting change?”
Essentially, Mpathic is “Grammarly for empathy,” according to Mpathic CEO Grin Lord.
*Russian Company Offers Free AI Writer: Russian tech company Yandex has released an extremely powerful– and free –AI writer.
Dubbed ‘YaLM 100B,’ the tool competes in the same league as GPT-3, a Microsoft-backed AI writer that took the world by storm in Summer 2020, when it was first introduced.
Says Petr Popov, CEO, Yandex Technologies: “By making YaLM 100B publicly available, we hope to give impetus to further developing generative neural networks.”
*Bloom: More powerful than GPT-3?: French researchers have released their own challenge to GPT-3 – currently the industry standard in super-powered AI writers.
Dubbed “Bloom,’ the auto-writer is slightly more powerful than GPT-3, according to the researchers, and also extremely accessible.
Observes Melissa Heikkila, a writer for MIT Technology Review: “The model’s ease of access is its biggest selling point.
“Now that it’s live, anyone can download it and tinker with it free-of-charge on Hugging Face’s Web site.
“Users can pick from a selection of languages and then type in requests for BLOOM to do tasks like writing recipes or poems, translating or summarizing texts, or writing programming code.
Plus, “AI developers can use the model as a foundation to build their own applications.’
*Meta Rolls-Out New Research in AI Translation: Facebook’s parent company Meta has released its latest research into AI-powered translation.
The upshot: The new AI experimentation has enabled Meta to handle translations in 202 languages.
Many of the languages featured include extremely obscure tongues, including Ethiopia’s West Central Oromo and Tamasheq, a language spoken in Algeria.
*AI Big Picture: That Chicken is Hurting: In yet another startling example of how AI is seemingly permeating virtually every aspect of existence, AI scientists have developed a new tool that can tell when chickens have the blues.
Observes Virginia Morell, a writer for Science.org: “Chickens make more sounds than most of us realize.
“They cluck when content, squawk when frightened, and sing “buk, buk, ba-gawk” when laying an egg.
“Now, scientists have developed an artificial intelligence program that automatically identifies these ‘SOS’ calls.”
It’s an advance that could help farmers save thousands of fledgling lives and millions of dollars in farm labor, according to Morell.
In a very real sense, the question with AI has become: What is it that AI cannot do?
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