John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief, Bloomberg, offers an in-depth view of how AI-generated writing and similar tech is changing how news is produced. “Roughly a third of the content that we do at Bloomberg – the 5,000 stories we do every day – has some element of automation,” Micklethwait shares in the 32-minute video.
In other AI-generated news:
*AI-Generated Journalism: For Elite Publishers Only?: Unlike smaller shops, leading media houses have the deep pockets to develop AI-generated writing and related programs. Essentially, AI is expensive, according to BW CIOWorld.
*Google’s Take on AI-Generated Journalism: Krishna Bharat, founder, Google News, offers his in-depth look on how AI is impacting and will impact journalism in this 29-minute video.
*AI Augments – And Does Not Threaten — Journalists’ Jobs: Some estimates suggest that current levels of AI technology could automate only about 15% of a reporter’s job , according to Nick Diakopoulos, assistant professor, communication studies and computer science, Northwestern University.
Moreover, only 9% of an editor’s job can most likely be automated. Diakopoulos also finds that more often than not, AI technologies appear to actually be creating new types of work in journalism.
*How Writers Can Brace Themselves for the Age of AI: While AI-generated writing is mostly simple recitations of basic facts, more sophisticated – and engaging – writing by machines appears inevitable long term.
In the meantime, human writers can benefit from the emerging Age of AI by using AI tools designed to help punch-up their prose, according to Jennifer Xue, a corporate content specialist at ProWritingAid.
*AI Writing Toolmaker Partners With Life Sciences Firm: AI-generated writing toolmaker Yseop has partnered with Cabeus to bring automated writing solutions to Cabeus’ life sciences clients.
“We use agile methodologies to show value to the scientific and medical writing community, so they are confident with the process of natural language generation,” says Nishchal Sehgal, vice president, client services, Cabeus.
*More Funding for AI-Generated Writing Solution Atomic Reach: Continuing to believe in the Toronto-based company, investors recently awarded it another $3.4 million in funding.
The cash will enable Atomic Reach to “further develop our neural networks to empower marketers to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their content, advertising and communications,” according to company CEO Bradley Silver.
*How AI-Generated Journalism is Remaking Newsrooms: Two experts in AI-generated writing offer their take on how AI is remaking newsrooms in this 15-minute video.
Recorded at the recent Machines and Media conference, the panel features Meredith Broussard, an assistant professor in data journalism at New York University and Nick Diakopoulos, assistant professor, communication studies and computer science Northwestern University,
*Google Adds ‘Smart Compose” to Apple IOS Devices: The AI-generated writing tool, which auto-suggests words and phrases as you type emails, is now available on Apple IOS devices using Gmail. Smart Compose was initially rolled-out to users of the Web-based and desktop versions of Gmail in 2018.
*Future Journalism: A Hybrid of Human and AI Machine: As AI permeates the newsroom, journalists will increasingly find themselves collaborating with AI-generated writing machines and similar applications.
“More often than not, AI technologies actually create new types of work related to things like configuring, updating, tweaking, validating, and generally maintaining and supervising systems,” says Nick Diakopoulos, assistant professor, communication studies and computer science, Northwestern University.
“This might include tasks like making sure input data streams are updated, editing knowledge bases or metadata, or tweaking any of the rule-sets built into content templates. There will be more work created — but it will be different from traditional editorial work.”
–Joe Dysart is 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.