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18.11.2024

ChatGPT: Trading-Up for a More Secure Version

While many businesses understandably have data privacy and security concerns when it comes to using ChatGPT, the good news is they can opt for more sophisticated versions of the tech to assuage those qualms.

In a phrase, ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI has been quietly beefing-up privacy and security options for customers willing to pay a bit more for peace-of-mind.

For example: If you place an absolute premium on data privacy and security, you’ll most likely want to opt for ChatGPT Enterprise — the app’s top-of-the-line offering.

Generally targeted to larger businesses with 150+ employees, ChatGPT Enterprise is available via a negotiated price with the AI’s maker, OpenAI.

Meanwhile, if you’re looking for a mix of basic security — and pricing that’s more affordable — you may want to check-out ChatGPT Team.

It’s a mid-level offering when it comes to privacy and security and costs $30/seat.

Either way — Enterprise or Team — trusting a third-party with your business data always includes a leap-of-faith.

And fortunately, many in the business community are apparently satisfied that OpenAI knows its stuff when it comes to safeguarding data and privacy.

Banking goliath Morgan Stanley, for example, is convinced that OpenAI has the security chops to protect its data and has been a long-time customer of its AI tech.

Plus, PwC, Amgen, Bain & Company and the University of Oxford — among others — feel the same way. They’re all OpenAI customers.

Digging a little deeper: With ChatGPT Enterprise, here are the specific security protections you can expect:

*Data Privacy: Only people you authorize — including your employees and third-party contractors that you green-light — are able to see your data.

*Data Encryption: Data you have at rest within ChatGPT is encrypted using AES-256. And data that’s in transit between your computer systems and ChatGPT is protected by TLS 1.2+. Both are seen as highly secure data encryption standards.

*No Model Training: OpenAI agrees to refrain from using your company data to train its AI.

*You Own Your Own Inputs: Anything your employees input into ChatGPT is owned by your company.

*You Own Your Own Outputs, Where Available: Anything produced by ChatGPT Enterprise that is triggered by you is also owned by your company — where allowed by law.

*Secure Sign-On: You also have the option to use a more sophisticated technology for employees looking to sign-on to ChatGPT Enterprise, known as SAML SSO (Security Assertion Markup Language Single Sign-On).

SAML SSO enables your business to interface ChatGPT with its existing identity management systems that run on the same protocol — providing a seamless and secure login experience for your employees.

*SOC 2, SOC 3 (System and Organization Controls) Compliance: ChatGPT Enterprise has proved that it offers the necessary controls and procedures to win this certification from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

*Other Security Certifications: ChatGPT Enterprise has also been certified compliant with the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act, CSA (Cloud Security Alliance) and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).

*Bug Bounty Program: OpenAI rewards users who find and report security and other bugs in the ChatGPT system — which ideally continuously improves ChatGPT security.

*On-Call Security Team: ChatGPT Enterprise also comes with an on-call security team that OpenAI promises is available 24/7/365 to help you respond to any security incidents you may encounter with the platform.

Meanwhile, for ChatGPT Team, security and privacy protections are a bit more basic, but are still substantial.

Your data is considered private when using Team and will not be used for training ChatGPT.

Plus, your IT department will be able to place controls on employee access to ChatGPT Team. And they’ll most likely appreciate the data encryption protections that are offered with the mid-level option.

Bottom line: If you’re especially concerned about privacy and security when using ChatGPT, you’ll want your IT department — as well as someone from your legal team — to closely study OpenAI’s full disclosure on its privacy and security policies, which are available on the OpenAI Security Portal.

There you’ll find the absolute latest information on the kind of security and privacy you can expect when you upgrade to ChatGPT Team or ChatGPT Enterprise.

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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.

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11.11.2024

Close Enough for Rock ‘n Roll!

By Joe Dysart in News, robotics, Robotics Classification, robots, robots in business, Robots Podcast Tag news

Too Many ‘Major AI Product Releases’ Not Ready for Prime Time

Back in my garage-band playing days, I remember turning to the group’s rhythm guitarist during a rehearsal and letting him know that his top strings were all flat.

To which he replied — with a toothy grin — “Close enough for Rock ‘n Roll!”

Unfortunately, that completely juvenile, “I”m-to-cool-to-give-a-damn?” swagger has been cropping-up all over the AI marketplace lately.

Last week, for example, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI released a new search engine to the world that some are heralding as a ‘Google-killer.’

But many people who actually used the search engine quickly discovered that the ‘fairy-dust-from-the-future’ was confidently bringing back text summaries of searches that were simply wrong.

Moreover, medical users of OpenAI’s Whisper transcription app are finding out that the tool — in some cases — is inserting ‘invented facts’ into the transcriptions.

Meaning that if a doctor has diagnosed someone with cancer, the resulting Whisper transcription may ‘invent’ a fact that contradicts the doctor’s diagnosis — or ‘invent’ a treatment that is not recommended for that form of cancer.

Oops.

Sadly, other — normally highly respected names in Big Tech — are also playing the same game.

Google’s recently popular NotebookLM, for example, has been hailed by some as ‘insanely magical’ for its ability to scrutinize a text document and then quickly auto-generate an audio discussion about that document by two, extremely human-sounding robotic voices.

The only problem: Turns-out, those cheery robotic voices also gleefully make-up facts not found in the source text.

And let’s not get started on Google Gemini’s initially bungled release of Gemini’s imaging capability back in February, which depicted America’s founding fathers — and Nazis — as racial minorities.

Meanwhile, even Apple is getting into the act.

In late October, the company breathlessly unveiled its supposedly ‘game-changing,’ much anticipated AI software update, dubbed ‘Apple Intelligence,’ which according to some, was destined to remake the world as we know it.

Instead, users quickly learned the ‘wunderkind’ AI writing and editing tools on board Apple Intelligence were actually much weaker versions of what you can get with the latest paid version of ChatGPT at 20-bucks-a-month.

Bottom-line: While many who follow tech closely are well aware of the Silicon Valley ethic, ‘Move Fast, Break Things and Apologize Afterwards’ we’ve reached a point where that bravado is endangering lives — and seriously eroding the public’s confidence in AI.

For example: Should we really be forced to put-up with a product used in a medical setting that could write down the wrong diagnosis and recommend the wrong treatment?

Should we really allow a product to stay on the market, even in experimental form, that auto-generates fictional interpretations of text documents — without an accompanying warning label?

Should we really be in awe of one of the top five most valuable companies on the planet, which pretends to release a ‘bleeding-edge,’ AI editing and writing tool — only to learn the app is actually generations behind the state-of-the-art?

No.

We shouldn’t.

Don’t get me wrong: I am in awe of many AI products that are truthfully marketed and advertised.

For example: I think OpenAI’s flagship product, ChatGPT, is an amazing tool for auto-writing and myriad other uses.

And I admire the fact that ChatGPT’s maker, OpenAI, has — from the very beginning — included a highly prominent warning label on the ChatGPT Web site that unequivocally declares the tool is prone to making-up facts.

But when the reverse is true, and we come across AI companies that are repeatedly releasing AI tools on the market that they fully realize are deeply flawed — and in some cases, even life-threatening — we have no choice but to brand them as who they really are:

Charlatans.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*The Waiting is the Hardest Part: No GPT-5 for 2024: Avid fans of ChatGPT — present company included — learned with some remorse that the tool will not be upgraded for a while.

That’s a blow to writers, given that the current version — ChatGPT-4 — seems to be best overall version of OpenAI’s software options for creative and nonfiction writing.

A major update would have most likely made it even better by far.

Still, we can hope for an update in 2025.

*Sweet Nothings: When ‘Whisper’ Medical Transcriptions Become Creative Writing: In a disturbing finding, many researchers are finding that Whisper — a transcription tool from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI — is making-up facts.

Observes lead writer Garance Burke: “Experts said that such fabrications are problematic because Whisper is being used in a slew of industries worldwide to translate and transcribe interviews, generate text in popular consumer technologies and create subtitles for videos.

“More concerning, they said, is a rush by medical centers to utilize Whisper-based tools to transcribe patients’ consultations with doctors.”

*Whisper Alternative Otter.ai Apparently Sticks to the Script: Writer Radhika Rajkumar advises that users of transcription tool Whisper — which has been found to make-up facts in the transcriptions it renders — should use Otter.ai instead.

Observes Rajkumar: “While you’re waiting for OpenAI to resolve the issue, we recommend trying Otter.ai, a journalist-trusted AI transcription tool.”

*Notion: Promising an AI Email Inbox That Thinks Like You: Notion is promising to deliver a new AI-powered app in early 2025 that will highly automate and customize every facet of your email experience.

Observes writer Emma Roth: “Much like Notion’s other tools, the company says Mail will distill email down to its building blocks, allowing you to create an inbox with views, layouts and actions tailored to your preferences.

“You can also use Notion AI to automatically organize, archive, or draft emails based on a prompt.”

*Google’s Gemini Comes to Gmail-on-the-Web: Leaving no stone unturned, Google has decided to offer AI help when you’re writing emails with Gmail on the Web.

Observes writer Emma Roth: “In addition to generating an email draft, ‘Help me write’ can also provide suggestions on how to formalize, elaborate, or shorten a message.

“Google’s ‘Help me write’ feature is only available to users who subscribe to Google One AI Premium or have the Gemini add-on for Workspace.”

*Microsoft Notepad Gets the AI Treatment: Maybe Even Your Grocery List Will Read Like Poetry: Like many other tech titans, Microsoft continues to make good on its intention to embed AI everywhere.

This time, AI is coming to its Notepad app.

Dubbed ‘Rewrite,’ the new feature “promises to spruce-up your text with the help of AI.

“Using an AI model called GPT, Rewrite can revise sentences, modify the tone, or alter the length of your text,” according to writer Lance Whitney.

*Claude Comes to Your Desktop: Because Browser AI is So 2024: Users of Claude — a top alternative to ChatGPT — can now work with the ‘auto-writer and more’ directly from Windows and Mac desktops.

Observes writer Lance Whitney: “The new apps work similarly to the Web site and are available for free users and paid subscribers.

“For now, the apps are tagged with a beta label, which may indicate that Anthropic is still tweaking them.”

*Living the AI Dream: Reducing Email Reading Time By 97%: Users of AI-powered data-analysis tool Snowflake report that the platform is saving companies significant time by auto-reading emails.

Case in point: Thomas Bodenski, CEO, TS Imagine, who reports that he’s using Snowflake’s AI to scan incoming emails for ‘crucial, actionable events.’

The result: Bodenski has reduced the time needed to process, understand and act on those emails by 97%.

*AI Big Picture: AI Now ‘Pitch Perfect’ for Most Marketers: A new study from The University of Pennsylvania finds that 62% of workers in marketing and sales are now using AI as a core tool.

Observes Stefano Puntoni, a marketing professor at the university: “Generative AI has rapidly evolved from a tool of experimentation to a core driver of business transformation.

“Companies are no longer just exploring AI’s potential.

“They are embedding it into their strategies to scale growth, streamline operations and enhance decision-making.”

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04.11.2024

SearchGPT: ChatGPT’s New Web Search Tool

By Joe Dysart in News, robotics, Robotics Classification, robots, robots in business, Robots Podcast Tag news

Promising — But Not Perfect

ChatGPT’s latest hip-check to Google — its own search engine — is delighting untold numbers across the Web.

Accessible with a simple click on a new globe icon in the ChatGPT message box, the new tool brings back summaries of searches for you — complete with hotlinks to the sources of the summaries.

The only problem: Sometimes those summaries get the facts wrong — even while linking to news stories and other content that directly contradict those summaries.

Bottom line: The new tool, dubbed ‘SearchGPT,’ will probably be used by some writers as a quick, down-and-dirty tool to generate a rough text draft from a Web search.

But as far as trusting that rough draft to be completely accurate: Not so much.

Put another way: ChatGPT can be an incredibly powerful auto-writer, as long as you use the right prompts — and as long as you strictly limit its writing to facts that you know are true.

For a great demo on how to use the new SearchGPT, check-out this video:

*How To Use ChatGPT Search

For real-world looks at how SearchGPT can get it wrong, check out these videos:

*ChatGPT Search Tested

*ChatGPT with Search

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Guide: Apple Intelligence’s New Writing Tools: Slick on Interface, Less So on Brains: PC Magazine offers an in-depth look into how to use Apple Intelligence’s new writing tools in this piece.

Capabilities include AI-powered writing, rewriting, summarization and proofreading.

One caveat: Despite the ga-ga attack many are experiencing at the release of the tools, it turns-out they’re much less powerful than AI writing available from industry leaders like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude.

*ChatGPT’s Truth-O-Meter: Mostly Set to Fiction: While ChatGPT’s maker freely admits that the AI may make-up facts, a new study finds that ChatGPT actually gets the facts wrong most of the time.

The report — issued by the chatbot’s maker, OpenAI — found that ChatGPT’s new o1 AI engine only came back with correct answers 43% of the time.

Observes writer Matthias Bastian: “Anthropic’s Claude models (competitors to ChatGPT) performed even worse. Their top model, Claude-3.5-Sonnet, got 28.9% right and 36.1% wrong.”

The takeaway: Among other wonder uses, ChatGPT and its close competitors are incredibly powerful auto-writing tools.

But they’re woefully inadequate as research tools.

*Memory Bonanza: All Your Old ChatGPT Chats Accessible Soon: Avid ChatGPT users rejoice: Now all those gems of insight buried in your old chats with ChatGPT will soon be easily accessible.

This piece in Tom’s Guide offers detail on how you’ll get to them.

Observes writer Ryan Morrison: “A new magnifying glass icon at the top of the sidebar will open a search box.

“And from there, you can see your history, start a new chat, or search for a specific chat you’ve previously created.”

*Pro Prompts: Or How To Unleash Your Inner Einstein: Writer Aditya Kumar offers an in-depth look at high-level tools designed to offer you killer prompts to use with ChatGPT and its competitors.

Tools detailed include:

~OpenPrompt

~AIPRM

~PromptBase

~PromptChainer

*School Policies on AI: For Many, Cross Fingers, Hope for Best: When it comes to the dos and don’ts regarding AI use in schools, many instructors are flying blind.

Observes lead writer Steph Machado: “Two years after ChatGPT became widely available, states have been slow to roll-out guidance on the use of artificial intelligence.

“That leaves many teachers and schools to grapple with AI on their own.”

*Gartner: 2025 Will See the Rise of AI Agents: Expect to see hordes of writers and others using AI agents to automate much of their everyday workflows in 2025, according to IT consulting firm Gartner.

Initially, AI agents will be used to automate the most mundane of repetitive tasks, according to writer Taryn Plumb.

But ultimately, AI agents will also be elevated to the role of digital co-worker, enabling them to make ever-more-impactful business decisions sans constant human oversight.

*Free AI: The Ultimate Winner?: Writer Matt Marshall reports that open source AI — freely available for download from the Web — may become the preferred AI for the world’s companies.

Observes Marshall: “While closed models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 dominated early adoption, open source models have since closed the gap in quality, and are growing at least as quickly in the enterprise.”

Facebook parent Meta has been a leader in offering open source AI with its own AI engine, Llama.

Meta is betting that the real money will be in designing applications that run atop Llama.

*AI Killed the Radio Star: The days when early AI adopters took great pains to pretend the tech would never replace humans are apparently far behind us.

Case in point: A Polish radio station recently fired all of its journalist announcers — quickly replacing them with AI-generated ‘presenters.’

Observes writer Carla St. Louis: “The station, based in Krakow, recently re-launched with three AI avatars, in hopes of attracting younger listeners to talk about cultural, art and social topics like LGBTQ+ issues.”

*Your Face, Their Chatbot: Drew Crecente found out the hard way that anyone can steal your image these days and turn it into a Web chatbot.

Specifically: Someone pirated an image of Crecente’s deceased daughter and callously used it to turn her into a video game journalist chatbot, courtesy Character.ai.

While the chatbot has since been deleted, “this enforcement was just a quick fix in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole in the land of generative AI, where new pieces of media are churned out every day using derivatives of other media scraped haphazardly from the Web,” according to writer Megan Farokhmanesh.

*Flawed Berkeley Study Concludes Humans More Creative Writers Than AI: A poorly designed Berkeley study has misleadingly concluded that ChatGPT and its competitors are less creative than their human counterparts.

In her study, researcher Nina Begus gave both the AI and the humans a single prompt to write a short story.

The problem: As any AI insider has known for years, you need to guide an AI’s writing with a few more prompts along the way to fully tap into its motherlode of creativity.

Essentially, with the study, it was as if Begus placed a human and a Ferrari on a high school running track, turned the ignition key and then fired the starting gun.

No surprise: Under that scenario, the human would easily beat the Ferrari, since the race car would be stuck in park as the human casually loped around the race track to victory.

However, if you would have put a human behind the wheel of the Ferrari, started the engine and then fired the starting gun, the human would have thrown the Ferrari in drive, gunned the gas pedal and actually been a participant in the race.

The question here, in each case — ChatGPT and Ferrari — is which is the fairest way to test a technology:

The way the technology was designed to be operated?
A method that deliberately undermines the way that technology was designed to be operated?

*AI Big Picture: AI Our Next Nukes?: The chances that China and similar rogue nations will out-militarize the U.S. when it comes to AI just got a bit more remote.

Reuters reports the Biden Administration is pushing the U.S. military to embed AI into its systems — while simultaneously ensuring that the remains fully controllable by humans.

Says Jake Sullivan, White House national security advisor:
“We have to get this right, because there is probably no other technology that will be more critical to our national security in the years ahead.”

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28.10.2024

Apple Intelligence’s New AI Writer

By Joe Dysart in News, robotics, Robotics Classification, robots, robots in business, Robots Podcast Tag news

Bare Minimum With a Side of Bland?

Apparently, editors and writers looking to be dazzled by the new AI writing and editing tools promised for the iPhone this week will probably end-up non-plussed.

Observes Joanna Stern, a writer for the Wall Street Journal: “If you’re expecting AI fireworks, prepare for AI — sparklers.

“Apple’s Writing Tools are the convenient drive-through right on the highway.

“OpenAI’s ChatGPT is the better restaurant a few miles off your route.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Guide: Under-the-Hood of Microsoft’s New AI Agents: Microsoft has released a highly detailed look at how its new AI agents actually work in this video.

Trumpeted by many as the next step in AI’s evolution, AI agents — which you can build using everyday language — are promising to automate countless everyday tasks.

This video, for example, offers a close-up on how an AI agent can be built to automate ongoing communications with a customer.

But the concepts leveraged by the showcased AI agent could just as easily be applied by a journalist looking to automate ongoing communications with a source, for example.

Or, the agent could also be tweaked to become a virtual journalist to venture out onto the Web to seek-out and cultivate new sources.

Observes Jared Spataro, a marketing officer at Microsoft: Agents “are the new apps for an AI-powered world. Every organization will have a constellation of agents — ranging from simple prompt-and-response to fully autonomous.

They will work on behalf of an individual, team or function to execute and orchestrate businesses process.

“Copilot is how you’ll interact with these agents, and they’ll do everything from accelerating lead generation and processing sales orders to automating your supply chain.”

*Zoom’s New AI Writing and Research Tools: De-Jumbling Your Thoughts: Video-meeting king Zoom is out with an upgrade of its onboard AI, dubbed AI Companion 2.0.

The upgrade includes new polish on AI writing tools that can auto-generate text content, help edit text and auto-generate summaries.

Plus, enhanced research capabilities include the ability to ask questions of documents and similar data that you upload to Zoom.

*Grammarly’s New ROI Tools: For Writing That Needs a Score: AI evangelists looking to sell their companies on AI writing and editing now have new return-on-investment tools from Grammarly.

A pioneer in AI editing and writing, Grammarly now features an ‘ROI Report’ that measures how use of Grammarly helps a business deliver on key performance indicators.

Also new is an ‘Effective Communication Score,’ which can be used to evaluate how businesses are upping their game using Grammarly when it comes to producing quality text.

*Robo-Written Police Reports?: What Could Go Wrong?: Add the prosecuting attorney for Seattle, Washington to the growing list of legal entities saying ‘not so fast’ to the idea of police reports auto-written by AI.

Observes Matthew Guariglia, a writer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation: “This is a good development. We hope prosecutors across the country will exercise such caution as companies continue to peddle technology – generative artificial intelligence to help write police reports – that could harm people who come into contact with the criminal justice system.”

One of the EFF’s primary beef’s with AI-generated police reports: “While an officer is required to edit the narrative and assert under penalty of perjury that it is accurate, some of the GenAI errors are so small that they will be missed in review,” according to Guariglia.

*Microsoft’s Upgraded AI Assistant: Falling Short — But That’s Apparently on You: The latest retread of MS Copilot — a direct competitor to ChatGPT — has left many users disenchanted.

Observes writer Kevin Okemwa: “Interestingly, Microsoft insiders revealed that the top complaint about Copilot is that it does not work as well as ChatGPT.

“Microsoft has countered this feedback by claiming users aren’t leveraging Copilot’s capabilities as intended, hence the disparity.”

*Using ChatGPT on Windows Just Got Easier: ChatGPT now has a Windows app you can download to the desktop of your computerized device that makes ChatGPT access a snap.

Simply click “Alt + Space” on your keyboard once the app is downloaded and ChatGPT will instantly appear on your screen.

A similar app also exists for Mac computerized devices.

*Where AI Goes for Street Cred: The Never-Ending Chatbot Shootout: Open-source AI promulgator Hugging Face has given its free AI Chatbot rating service a new facelift.

Essentially: You can click here to see how ChatGPT is faring against its many rivals.

One caveat: Users contributing to the rating service use their own, subjective criteria when deciding how a chatbot stacks-up against its competitors.

So some reviewers, for example, may rate a chatbot at how well it renders computer code — rather than how well it auto-writes in comparison to other AI chatbots.

*The Top Ten Gladiators of Grammar: Participle, You Shall Dangle No More!: The London Daily News has come out with its list of the top AI tools in grammar checking.

Many commonly recommended offerings made the list.

Dark horses include LanguageTool and Scribens.

*AI Big Picture: State of AI Report 2024: AI investor Nathan Benaich and Air Street Capital have released their seventh annual take on AI.

Some key takeaways:

~ChatGPT’s maker may have a tougher time staying well ahead of the pack in coming years

~China’s AI labs are feeling the sting of U.S. sanctions designed to slow-down AI development in that country

~The combined value of AI companies has hit $9 trillion

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21.10.2024

ULTIMATE GUIDE: New ChatGPT Editor, Canvas

By Joe Dysart in News, robotics, Robotics Classification, robots, robots in business, Robots Podcast Tag news

One of the easiest ways to edit text in ChatGPT — once you have a draft that works for you — is to use the AI’s new onboard editor, Canvas.

A godsend to writers and editors, Canvas comes equipped with a number of handy tools that enable you to make quick, surgical and artful changes to any text.

But easily the most powerful tool of the lot is Canvas’ ‘highlight-and-change’ feature.

Essentially, this tool enables you to make onscreen changes to any text you highlight, without forcing you to regenerate your entire text every time you want to make a little tweak.

Instead, your requested changes appear onscreen for you in the precise location you made them — saving you considerable effort each-and-every time you make an edit.

For example, you can use Canvas to quickly edit the opening paragraph of a text to sound wittier by:

*Logging into ChatGPT
*Clicking on the AI engine you’re using on the top left of ChatGPT’s
home page once you’re logged in
*Choosing ‘GPT-4o with canvas’ as your engine
*A new screen appears, with a message box in the center
of the screen that asks, “What can I help you with?”
*Typing “Please open a blank canvas” in the message box
*A split-screen appears, that features:
~A new blank canvas on the right, where you enter your draft text
~A ChatGPT message box appears on the bottom left, where you can
input ‘traditional’ ChatGPT prompts any time you’d like
*Cutting-and-pasting your draft text onto the blank canvas
*Highlighting the opening paragraph of your text
*Waiting for an “Ask ChatGPT” tool to appear
*Clicking on the ‘Ask ChatGPT’ tool
*Typing into the ‘Ask ChatGPT’ message box, “Please make this sound
wittier”
*Waiting a few seconds as Canvas rewrites your highlighted paragraph
for you
*Waiting for a message to appear on the left side of your screen that
confirms the rewrite has been made
*Reading the rewritten paragraph, which appears in the exact location of
your previous paragraph

If you like the change Canvas has made, you can simply run with it and get on with other edits you may have in mind.

But if you don’t like what Canvas has wrought, you still have solid options.

Specifically: You can repeatedly message ‘Ask ChatGPT’ to make run-after-run at amping-up-the-wit in your text’s opening paragraph until Canvas comes up with an absolutely dazzling version for you.

Or, you can simply click the Canvas’ ‘rollback’ arrow — located at the top right-hand side of the screen — and stick with the paragraph you started with before Canvas made any changes.

One more example of the powerful new highlighting tool: You may want Canvas to rewrite some text that you’ve highlighted so that it targets a highly specific audience — such as your compatriots in your fantasy football club.

In practice, making that change to your text is also a snap for Canvas.

Simply:

*Highlight the text you’d like altered (In this case, you’ll be highlighting
the entire text, since you want the entire text altered)
*Input a prompt describing the change you want in the
‘Ask ChatGPT’ message box (In this case, you’ll ask Canvas to “Please
rewrite this text so that it appeals to a fantasy football club).
*Click ‘Enter’

And you’re done: Seconds later, ChatGPT will deliver new text for you that’s adjusted to your new specifications.

Essentially, the number of changes you’re able to make to your text with Canvas is limited only by your imagination.

Looking to re-color a text with a different emotion? Wish your text could be rewritten so that it presents a pro-and-con argument? Have a hankering to sprinkle your text with a dash of industry jargon?

Looking to make yet another kind of change to your text?

Each of those — and countless more — is a cakewalk for ChatGPT.

Again, simply:

*Highlight the text you’d like altered
*Input a prompt describing the precise change you want into the ‘Ask
ChatGPT’ message box
*Click Enter

And you’re done.

Seconds later, Canvas will serve-up the change you requested.

Accessing Canvas’ Beginner Editing Tools

Besides free-form editing, Canvas also comes equipped with a number of easy-to-use, pre-programmed buttons that beginners can use to edit all or part of a text.

For example: Simply highlight another passage in your text, or a number of paragraphs in your text — or even your entire text, for that matter — and you can access a toolbar on the bottom right screen of Canvas to make special kinds of edits.

Specifically, once you’ve cut-and-pasted your text into Canvas and highlighted text you’d like changed, simply hover over a pencil icon that you’ll find in the right, bottom corner of Canvas and you’ll see these tool buttons appear:

*Suggest Edits: The most versatile tool on the toolbar, clicking this button prompts ChatGPT to examine your highlighted text and auto-suggest ways to improve it.

*Adjust Reading Level: With a simple click of this button, you’ll be able to adjust your highlighted text to nine different reading levels — from kindergarten through graduate school.

*Adjust Length: A click here enables you to play around with the length of your highlighted text, easily enabling you to arrive at an optimum setting that’s right for you.

*Add Emojis: By clicking this button, you’ll be able to instantly add emojis to your highlighted text. Plus, if you feel that the result looks like ’emoji overkill,’ you can simply prompt Canvas — using the ‘Ask ChatGPT’ message box — to remove say 60% or 70% of the new text’s emojis — or whatever other percent reduction you’re after.

*Add Final Polish: Once you’re happy with your changes, clicking this button triggers Canvas to take one more look at your highlighted text and suggest any final edits, if needed.

As if that’s not enough, ChatGPT also features an extremely powerful ‘Help me write’ option that you can use if you find yourself staring at a blank screen and gulping with anxiety.

During such trying moments, you can activate ‘Help me write’ by opening ‘ChatGPT 4o with canvas’ and looking for the giant ‘What can I help with?’ message at the center of the screen.

Beneath that message, you should find a ‘Help me write’ tab that you can click on.

If the tab is not there, try clicking on the ‘More’ tab and that a ‘Help me write’ tab should appear.

Either way, after you click the ‘Help me write’ tab, a prompt will instantly appear in the ‘What can I help with?’ message box with the words ‘Help me write.’

Simply finish the sentence inside the message box detailing the format of text you’d like to create (such as free-form text, blog post, essay, social media post, etc.).

Instantly, Help me write will launch into an interview with you to help you pinpoint what you’d like included in your text.

Based on your inputs, Help me write will continue to walk you through the writing process, finish a draft of text for you — and then make sure you’re satisfied with the overall voice, tone and structure of the text it’s auto-created.

Pretty cool.

There is one caveat regarding all this new magic from ChatGPT: If you’re a newbie to ChatGPT, go in with both eyes open, knowing that the following Canvas onboard editing tools (which we’ve already seen) only represent an infinitesimally small capability of the full powers of the Canvas editor:

*Suggest Edits
*Adjust Reading Level
*Adjust Length
*Add Final Polish
*Add Emojis

Essentially, these aforementioned tools — found, as we’ve seen, by hovering your mouse over the pencil icon that’s located in the bottom right corner — are simply beginner tools that are designed to help get you started editing when using Canvas.

Once you get the hang of editing in Canvas by starting with these beginner tools, you’ll find that the true power of editing in Canvas comes from highlighting text you’d like to change — and then using the “Ask ChatGPT” message box to input precise, highly personalized editing preferences that you’d like the AI to use to rework your text.

Finally: If you’re a ChatGPT Plus or ChatGPT Team user, you’re in luck: Canvas should already be available from the model picker on the top left of ChatGPT’s home page.

Meanwhile, Canvas is currently being rolled-out to ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Education users — and may be offered to free users at a later date.

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14.10.2024

Dream a Little Dream for Me

By Joe Dysart in News, robotics, Robotics Classification, robots, robots in business, Robots Podcast Tag news

Red Flag: Google’s CoHosted-Podcast Maker Not Always Accurate

Google’s new NotebookLM — which has gone viral with its ability to auto-script and auto-produce a co-hosted podcast in minutes — is unfortunately also very good at making things up.

The new AI research tool — which uses two, extremely natural-sounding robot voices to discuss text, audio or video that you input into NotebookLM — is currently wowing the Web.

But reviewer Matt Derron has found that like all generative AI tools, the two robot voices can occasionally get it wrong.

“In trying to make the hosts sound natural with their back-and-forth banter, it sometimes misses the original intent of the source material,” Derron says.

Of course, that flaw is no reason to toss NotebookLM on the digital trash-heap: The AI tool’s ability to auto-generate an extremely lively, co-hosted podcast using numerous forms of media is still truly remarkable.

But to be on the safe side, you may want to do a little editing on any co-hosted podcast that’s auto-generated by NotebookLM before publishing it live — or suffer the consequences.

For an excellent, in-depth look and critique of how NotebookLM auto-produces co-hosted podcasts, check-out Derron’s in-depth video.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Video Guide: ChatGPT’s New Onboard Editor, ‘Canvas:’ If you’re looking for a crystal clear, extremely informative demo on ChatGPT’s new onboard editor, Canvas, this video is the ticket.

Produced by the ‘Productive Dude,’ channel, the 12-minute, video guide offers great insights into the editor, whose coolest feature is its ability to highlight and quickly change portions of a text in ChatGPT, on-the-fly.

Canvas is already available to paying users of ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Team, is currently being rolled-out to ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Education users.

It also may be offered to free users at a later date.

Other key tools included by the Canvas editor — which are operated with a click — include the ability to:

~adjust the word length of a document
~adjust the reading level of a document
~solicit editing suggestions for a document
~add final polish to a document’s wording
~add emojis to a document

Plus, while you’re using Canvas, you can also work with the document the ‘old fashioned’ way by using prompts to alter the document’s text.

*Gmail’s Upgraded Auto-Replies: For When “K” Isn’t Enough: Gmail aided by Google’s Gemini AI is now able to offer auto-replies to emails that are much more in-depth.

Observes writer Mike Moore: “After selecting to reply to a message, users will see several response options at the bottom of their screen, which now analyzes the full content of the email thread to provide more detailed, richer responses.

“Users can hover over each response to get a quick preview of the text, then select the one that feels right for the situation.

“You will be able to edit the pre-written message if needed, or send immediately.”

*When Less is More: New Frase Upgrade Cuts Clutter, Keeps Magic: Frase — an AI writer that specializes in auto-producing search engine optimized (SEO) copy — is out with an easier-to-use version.

Observes Matt Hurley, co-founder, Frase: “We removed the functionality that caused clutter and confusion and focused on building more of what truly mattered to our users.

“The result? A simpler yet more powerful tool that ensures you don’t need an army of specialists or endless training to create content that drives results.”

*Microsoft’s Upgraded Copilot: Part Assistant, Part Thinker, Always on: Microsoft Copilot — a key competitor to ChatGPT — now offers enhanced functionality, including:

~An audio-driven, daily news summary
~Natural voice interaction
~The ability to act as a companion when you browse the Web
~’Think Deeper,’ available via the Copilot Lab module, which enables Copilot’s AI to ruminate carefully before responding to a user question

*Google’s Podcast Creator: Instant Banter, Now With Audio and YouTube Inputs: Google’s NotebookLM — an AI research assistant that
auto-creates co-hosted podcasts from text — can now also ingest audio and YouTube videos to auto-create podcasts.

Observes Raiza Martin, a Google product manager: “Today, you can now add public YouTube URLs and audio files directly into your notebook, alongside PDFs, Google Docs, Slides, Web sites and more.”

In practice, this means you can add a bit of text to NotebookLM, a few links to some YouTube videos, a few more links to some audio podcasts — and the tool will auto-create a co-hosted podcast for you based on those inputs.

*Automated Blogging: Who Needs Quality When You Can Have Quantity?: Marketers and others using AI to auto-generate endless posts for their blog could be playing with fire, according to writer Sandra Dawson.

Specifically, Dawson says such automated blogging can lead to:

~Misinformation and low quality content

~Auto keyword stuffing

~Generic-sounding posts

~A slew of other downsides

*Using ChatGPT? Congrats, You’ve Mastered Most AI Writers Already: While there are hundreds of AI writers, just a few companies — including ChatGPT’s maker Open AI, Anthropic and Meta — actually power those auto-writers, according to Ryan Doser.

The reason: Most AI writers are simply software interfaces that sit atop the powerful AI engines that actually do the real work of auto-generating writing, according to this 12-minute video by Doser.

Plus, the few AI titans who own those AI engines currently all use the same technology: Generative AI.

A key takeaway: This is why it makes sense to stay well-acquainted with ChatGPT, whose AI engine — and underlying technology –serves as the foundation for many other AI writers.

Essentially: If you know how to use ChatGPT, you already know — in a general way — how to use all those other AI writers that are powered by ChatGPT or powered by other generative AI.

*New ChatGPT Challenger: Free, Open — and Ready to Rumble: ChatGPT has another challenger lurching for its throne: A new AI engine just released by Nvidia.

Interestingly, the new AI engine is open source, meaning anyone can download its software, tinker with it and/or build applications atop it, free-of-charge.

The reason why this particular AI engine is so notable: Most of today’s generative AI is powered by Nvidia chips, which heavily dominate the world as the go-to hardware for powering AI.

Plus, Nvidia also has extremely deep pockets to continue competing with ChatGPT: It’s currently one of the top five companies in the world and worth about $3.4 trillion.

*AI Big Picture: AI Engine Building: For People Who Use Moons as Paperweights: The power to build AI engines — the underlying software that powers today’s AI writers and similar apps — is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.

The reason: It takes enormous amounts of capital to build such engines — also known as Large Language Models.

Case in point: Character.AI, an AI startup, just abandoned its efforts to enhance its own AI engine, given that such building has become incredibly expensive, according to writer Sage Lazzaro.

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14.10.2024

Dream a Little Dream for Me

By Joe Dysart in News, robotics, Robotics Classification, robots, robots in business, Robots Podcast Tag news

Red Flag: Google’s CoHosted-Podcast Maker Not Always Accurate

Google’s new NotebookLM — which has gone viral with its ability to auto-script and auto-produce a co-hosted podcast in minutes — is unfortunately also very good at making things up.

The new AI research tool — which uses two, extremely natural-sounding robot voices to discuss text, audio or video that you input into NotebookLM — is currently wowing the Web.

But reviewer Matt Derron has found that like all generative AI tools, the two robot voices can occasionally get it wrong.

“In trying to make the hosts sound natural with their back-and-forth banter, it sometimes misses the original intent of the source material,” Derron says.

But to be on the safe side, you may want to do a little editing on any co-hosted podcast that’s auto-generated by NotebookLM before publishing it live — or suffer the consequences.

For an excellent, in-depth look and critique of how NotebookLM auto-produces co-hosted podcasts, check-out Derron’s in-depth video.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

Canvas is already available to paying users of ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Team, is currently being rolled-out to ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Education users.

It also may be offered to free users at a later date.

Plus, while you’re using Canvas, you can also work with the document the ‘old fashioned’ way by using prompts to alter the document’s text.

*Gmail’s Upgraded Auto-Replies: For When “K” Isn’t Enough: Gmail aided by Google’s Gemini AI is now able to offer auto-replies to emails that are much more in-depth.

“Users can hover over each response to get a quick preview of the text, then select the one that feels right for the situation.

“You will be able to edit the pre-written message if needed, or send immediately.”

*When Less is More: New Frase Upgrade Cuts Clutter, Keeps Magic: Frase — an AI writer that specializes in auto-producing search engine optimized (SEO) copy — is out with an easier-to-use version.

Observes Matt Hurley, co-founder, Frase: “We removed the functionality that caused clutter and confusion and focused on building more of what truly mattered to our users.

“The result? A simpler yet more powerful tool that ensures you don’t need an army of specialists or endless training to create content that drives results.”

*Microsoft’s Upgraded Copilot: Part Assistant, Part Thinker, Always on: Microsoft Copilot — a key competitor to ChatGPT — now offers enhanced functionality, including:

Observes Raiza Martin, a Google product manager: “Today, you can now add public YouTube URLs and audio files directly into your notebook, alongside PDFs, Google Docs, Slides, Web sites and more.”

Specifically, Dawson says such automated blogging can lead to:

~Misinformation and low quality content

~Auto keyword stuffing

~Generic-sounding posts

~A slew of other downsides

The reason: Most AI writers are simply software interfaces that sit atop the powerful AI engines that actually do the real work of auto-generating writing, according to this 12-minute video by Doser.

Plus, the few AI titans who own those AI engines currently all use the same technology: Generative AI.

A key takeaway: This is why it makes sense to stay well-acquainted with ChatGPT, whose AI engine — and underlying technology –serves as the foundation for many other AI writers.

Essentially: If you know how to use ChatGPT, you already know — in a general way — how to use all those other AI writers that are powered by ChatGPT or powered by other generative AI.

*New ChatGPT Challenger: Free, Open — and Ready to Rumble: ChatGPT has another challenger lurching for its throne: A new AI engine just released by Nvidia.

Interestingly, the new AI engine is open source, meaning anyone can download its software, tinker with it and/or build applications atop it, free-of-charge.

The reason why this particular AI engine is so notable: Most of today’s generative AI is powered by Nvidia chips, which heavily dominate the world as the go-to hardware for powering AI.

Plus, Nvidia also has extremely deep pockets to continue competing with ChatGPT: It’s currently one of the top five companies in the world and worth about $3.4 trillion.

The reason: It takes enormous amounts of capital to build such engines — also known as Large Language Models.

Case in point: Character.AI, an AI startup, just abandoned its efforts to enhance its own AI engine, given that such building has become incredibly expensive, according to writer Sage Lazzaro.

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07.10.2024

Now That’s a Big Payday

By Joe Dysart in News, robotics, Robotics Classification, robots, robots in business, Robots Podcast Tag news

AI Engineer Snags $2.7 Billion to Sign With Google

If you’re chatting-up your boss for a raise, you may want to reference the deal Noam Shazeer just cut with Google.

A former Google employee that the tech titan sorely missed, the AI wunderkind was happy to let bygones be bygones — for a mere $2.7 billion signing fee.

Shazeer is one of the early pioneers of what were to become AI chatbots — the tech that powers most of today’s auto-writers.

Technically speaking, Google also purchased Shazeer’s start-up company — Character.AI — as part of his rehire.

But “within Google, Shazeer’s return is widely viewed as the primary reason the company agreed to pay the multibillion-dollar licensing fee,” according to writer Miles Kruppa.

Brings new meaning to the song lyric, “Mammas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Guide: Meeting Minutes, Minus the Misery: Zoom’s AI Meeting Note-Taker: Wired reviewer John Brandon offers an in-depth look at new AI for Zoom software — dubbed ‘AI Companion’ — that auto-generates meeting notes and summaries.

AI Companion can also tell you who talked the most during a Zoom meeting — and even gauge the meeting’s overall emotional tone, according to Brandon.

Brandon’s verdict: “Overall, the AI Companion saved time in an important way: No one had to take notes in any of my meetings, and the final summaries were all quite useful. No clicking or clacking!”

*Brain Transplant: Google Adds ‘Copilot’ Type Chatbot to Its Workspace Suite: In an effort to compete with ‘Copilot’ — an AI chatbot that Microsoft offers for use in its business productivity suite — Google has added a similar AI chatbot to its competing suite, Workplace.

Observes writer Emilia David: “Workspace users in the Business, Enterprise and Frontline plans will automatically get access to the Gemini app that’s now built into the platform.

“Workspace offers enterprises access to a large swath of Google products — Gmail, Docs and Calendars — but with the option of using their own domains and enterprise-level security. “

*Salesforce Promising ‘Copilot Killer:’ Deriding Microsoft’s Copilot as little more than an annoying time-waster, Salesforce is promising to roll-out a competing product for its own workplace productivity suite.

Dubbed ‘Agentforce,’ the AI system is designed to make it easier to use business software — and to integrate with hundreds of business applications.

Observes writer Sasha Rogelberg: “It’s part of a growing movement of implementing AI agents over copilots to take tech assistance one step further.”

*The End of I Never Said That?: Editors and writers looking for an easy way to record — and instantly transcribe — in-person interviews may want to check-out the Plaud-AI pin.

Powered by ChatGPT, the $169, soon-to-be-released tech comes with 300 free, monthly transcription minutes, according to writer Brian Heater.

Observes Heater: “The recordings are saved on your phone in real time. And from there you can decide whether to upload them for transcription — depending on how robust a monthly subscription you have.”

*Chatbots Gone Wild: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Third Reich: The Wall Street Journal became the latest to find out the hard way that hosting an experimental AI chatbot can be an egg-on-face experience.

Specifically: Pranksters recently spoofed an experimental WSJ chatbot — designed to offer iPhone information — to instead spout Hitler talk.

Observes writer Joanna Stern: “Like my three-year-old, bots struggle to follow the rules.”

*AI a Hit Among UK Lawyers: Increasing numbers of UK legal pros are going all-in on AI, according to a new survey from LexisNexis.

Researchers found that 41% of 800+ legal pros surveyed are currently using AI for work.

Observes writer Caroline Hill: “Lawyers with plans to use AI for legal work in the near future also jumped from 28% to 41%, while those with no plans to adopt AI dropped from 61% to 15%.”

*ChatGPT CEO’s Crystal Ball on Our Future: Everyone Wins the Lottery?: Sam Altman — the AI wunderkind that made ChatGPT and AI household words the world over — predicts AI’s impact on the future will most likely be so overwhelmingly positive, it’s unimaginable.

Observes Altman: “How did we get to the doorstep of the next leap in prosperity?

“In three words: Deep learning worked.

“In 15 words: Deep learning worked, got predictably better with scale — and we dedicated increasing resources to it.”

*Free-for-All: Open-Source AI Gets Another Boost: Fans of open-source AI software — released free to the world on the theory that the real money is in the apps to be built atop it — have something new to cheer about.

Facebook’s parent Meta has released an upgrade to its AI software that competes directly with the AI engine undergirding ChatGPT.

Dubbed Llama 3.2, the AI engine is still a bit weaker than the one running ChatGPT.

But long-run, the competition is sure to help keep AI prices lower.

*AI Big Picture: Hungry for Cash, ChatGPT-Maker on the Hunt for Unthinkable Billions: Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI, is currently on a world tour attempting to convince players in the computer industry to cooperatively build the next generation of AI data centers.

Altman insists the world will need a spate of these centers to fully realize AI’s potential.

The cost of each new center: A cool $100 billion, he says.

Observes writer Cade Metz: “OpenAI believes this kind of technology could be the future of its business. If it can get its hands on more computing power, its AI can learn to do more. At least, that is the theory.”

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22.09.2024

Wheel of AI Fortune

By Joe Dysart in News, robotics, Robotics Classification, robots, robots in business, Robots Podcast Tag news

New Service Auto-Selects Best AI Engine for Your Next Writing Project

A San Francisco startup has just released what could be one of the smartest AI services of the year: An app that promises to auto-select the best AI engine for your next writing or other project.

Essentially, instead of wondering if you should turn to ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude — or any number of other AI chatbots — to write your next article, for example, the new service, dubbed Martian, will do all that analysis and choosing for you.

Says Shriyash Upadhyay, co-founder, Martian: “We can automatically choose the right model, not even on a task-by-task basis, but a query-by-query basis. This allows for lower costs and higher performance — because it means that you don’t always have to use a single model.”

Besides promising to be the perfect selection coach, Martian — and similar services — help keep AI writing costs low by offering access to a wide array of AI chatbots with just one click or tap.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

Essentially, the new tech studies your text, then uses two, extremely lifelike and animated robot voices — one male, one female — to discuss the key points and themes in your piece.

Far from a gimmick, the new feature of Google’s Notebook LM platform can enhance any text-based digital property looking to add co-hosted, audio podcasts to its mix.

Click here to listen to an article transformed into a co-hosted podcast, courtesy Google.

*900+ Universities Bet On Grammarly: Let’s Just Auto-Correct Everything: More than 900 universities and colleges have waved the white flag on AI and are now all-in on introducing the tech into their curriculums.

Essentially, the association has agreed to work with Grammarly AI to infuse its technology into college classes.

Observes a Business Wire press release: “This effort will drive research and dialogue on how higher education institutions can incorporate AI technologies in ways that are ethical, effective — and aligned with educational goals.”

Sounds good in theory.

*PR Newswire Ditches Human Writers for AI Writing:
Public relations juggernaut PR Newswire has released a new suite of AI tools designed to help customers write and distribute press releases.

The AI undergirding the company’s new tools is Google Gemini.

A historical note: In the olden days, before the advent of AI, human writers were the ones who wrote press releases for PR Newswire.

*Microsoft Copilot’s New Unified Database: From Chaos to Clarity in a Click: Microsoft is out with a key, new feature for its Copilot that consolidates everything it knows about your company — as well as everything else you’d like included from the Web — into a single database.

The pitch: With the unified database, you’ll have much greater flexibility in creating articles and other text on-the-fly with Copilot.

Observes writer Graham Barlow: “So you could prompt Copilot with something like ‘make a report similar to that one we did last month for Eric –but with the new data’ — and it will compile it for you.”

*New Auto-Essays: Without the Annoying Learning Part: Yet another AI startup has released a new auto-writing app promising to auto-write tough-to-beat, instant essays.

Dubbed PerfectEssayWriter.ai, the tool is also designed to engage in Q&As with you and also revise your own writing.

Still no definitive word if this AI essay app is currently the best essay writer the planet has ever seen.

*Customer Chat Gets A Mood Ring: For Humans Who Can’t Read a Room: Customer chat reps who are tone-deaf when it comes to assessing customer mood now have new help from AI.

The Talkdesk customer-to-chat-rep system is out with a new feature that auto-assesses customer mood in the chat — and then auto-creates an appropriate reply based on that mood.

The tech is also designed to work with email or smartphone texts.

*Snapshot: Key Players in AI Email Writing: Mastering The Art of ‘Per My Last Email:’ HTF Market Intelligence is predicting healthy growth in the AI-powered email writing market with a new report.

Key players in that market, according to HTF, are:

*Snapshot: Key Players in AI Editing and Proofreading: Fixing Typos So You Can Plot World Domination: HTF Market Intelligence is predicting major growth in the AI-powered editing and proofreading market with a new report.

Key players in that market, according to HTF, are:

*AI Big Picture: No End in Sight on Corporate AI Spending Spree: Apparently, SpendFest 2024 — wherein major investors from across the world throw gobs and gobs of money at the concept of AI — is still in full swing.

Observes writer Nate Rattner: “Generative artificial intelligence has sparked one of the biggest spending booms in modern American history, as companies and investors bet hundreds of billions of dollars that the technology will revolutionize the global economy and one day lead to massive profits.

“The question is when, and even whether, all those investments will pay off.”

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16.09.2024

Take a Powder, Einstein

By Joe Dysart in News, robotics, Robotics Classification, robots, robots in business, Robots Podcast Tag news

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.

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 Wasn’t Enough: 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 do not actually exist in the real world.

*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 chatbots’ voices with much more emotion.

Dubbed Hume AI, the app enables 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.”

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.”

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09.09.2024

Inflation Just Got Artificially Intelligent

By Joe Dysart in News, robotics, Robotics Classification, robots, robots in business, Robots Podcast Tag news

ChatGPT-Maker Mulls New $2,000/Month Rate

Is the party over for everyday users of ChatGPT?

Tech pub The Information reports that the maker of ChatGPT — OpenAI — is mulling plans to jack-up the price of future versions of the wonder-bot to as much as $2,000/month.

Currently, a basic subscription to ChatGPT costs $20/month.

Observes a story by Thomson Reuters: “The reported pricing discussions come after media reports said Apple and chip giant Nvidia were in talks to invest in OpenAI as part of a new fundraising round that could value the ChatGPT maker above $100 billion.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Guide: New Video-to-Blog-Post AI Released: Bloggers looking to easily transform videos from YouTube, Instagram and similar into text blog posts may want to take a gander at ArticleX.

Designed to connect easily to video accounts, the new tool can quickly analyze a selected video, capture key info and then automatically generate a blog post.

That post comes complete with a featured image and an embed of the original video.

Plus, all the text is rendered in a customized brand voice.

For those who want a more automated experience, ArticleX can also detect new video content on the Web and then repurpose that content as a blog post directly on a Web site.

One hopes that in the midst of their transformation options, users always remember to credit the original source video.

*Pocket Change: New AI Chatbot Challenges ChatGPT at $10/Month: Ninja SuperGPT AI Assistant — a direct competitor to ChatGPT — now has a million users, according to Babak Pahlavan, CEO, NinjaTechAI.

Offering unlimited image generation, the AI is designed to work with more than 20 of the world’s most popular AI engines.

One of those AI engines — also known as Large Language Models — is its own Ninja-LLM 3.0, which is built on AI developed by Facebook parent Meta.

*Let the Existential Crisis Begin!: AI Okay for Novel Writing Contest: Looks like mere flesh-bags are going to be competing with the most advanced AI chatbots on the planet in this year’s National Novel Writing Month competition.

Organizers have green-lit use of the tech in the competition, which challenges writers to crank-out a 50,000-word novel in 30 days.

The blowback: Four members of the organization sponsoring the competition have resigned from their roles — as has at least one sponsor, according to writer Peter Biles.

*Highbrow Literature Meets AI: Because Even Fancy Words Need Automation: Writers unconvinced that today’s AI can produce highbrow literature are in for a rude awakening, according to writer Tim Brinkoff.

Adds writer Sean Michaels: “I think there is a misconception that Large Language Models like ChatGPT are not very good at writing in a lyrical, literary prose style.

“In fact, they can do it easily and quite well — just like all the image-generating software can do things like making photos in the styles of Wes Anderson or David Lynch.”

*Can’t Finish That Novel? Let AI Pretend You Did!: Writer Amanda Caswell says she was able to use Sudowrite — a popular AI tool used by fiction writers — to help get over writer’s block and finally finish her novel.

Observes Caswell: “Sudowrite has genuinely transformed my approach to writing. Six months ago, if you had told me I’d complete not one, but two YA science fiction novels, I would have laughed.

“If you’d told me one of those novels would hit #1 on Amazon for a week, I’d have begged for the secret.

“Sudowrite isn’t just a tool: It’s a creative companion that can help unlock your writing potential. Give it a try and you might just find yourself finally writing that novel.”

*Pixel Showdown: Rock-Em-Sock-Em Robots Compete for Best in AI Imaging: Writers looking for arresting supporting images to complement their text may want to check-out writer Ryan Morrison’s ranking of seven top AI imagers.

The result: Image judging turns-out to be so subjective, you’ll probably want to take a look at each of the seven images Morrison generated and make your own assessment.

Fortunately, Morrison includes all seven images in his article — which are just a click away.

*Challenger Elbows-In on ChatGPT’s Business Customers: ChatGPT competitor Claude is attempting to take a bite out of the market leader’s business by offering an Enterprise edition of its own.

Like ChatGPT Enterprise, the Claude alternative offers greater privacy protection for businesses.

Also included is the ability to work with dozens of 100-page documents simultaneously — or a two-hour audio transcript.

*Apparently, There is Such a Thing As a Free Lunch: No-Charge AI Engine Nears 350 Million Downloads: Fans of open-source AI — freely released to the world to help stimulate the development of AI apps across the globe — learned that Facebook parent Meta has become a mighty player in that effort.

New data released by Meta reveals that the company’s free, open-source AI engine — dubbed Llama — has been downloaded nearly 350 million times.

Observes Jensen Huang, CEO, Nvidia: “Llama has profoundly impacted the advancement of state-of-the-art AI.

“The floodgates are now open for every enterprise and industry to build and deploy custom Llama supermodels.

“It’s incredible to witness the rapid pace of adoption in just the past month.”

*AI Big Picture: Time Magazine’s Tops-in-AI Rankings: When Changing the World Only Gets You Fourth Place: Time has released its list of the top 100 people in AI, which includes Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft and Sasha Luccioni, AI & Climate Lead, Hugging Face — a promoter of open-source AI.

Curiously, Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI — the maker of ChatGPT and the person who made both AI and ChatGPT household words the world over — is rated at number four.

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02.09.2024

Oklahoma City Cops All-In on AI

By Joe Dysart in News, robotics, Robotics Classification, robots, robots in business, Robots Podcast Tag news

The days of police reports typed with one-finger by exasperated peacekeepers may soon go the way of brass knuckles.

Cops in Oklahoma City are now using an AI chatbot — linked to their body camera — to write pursuits and arrests in real-time.

Observes Oklahoma City Police Sergeant Matt Gilmore regarding the AI’s report on a recent incident: “It was a better report than I could have ever written — and it was 100% accurate.”

Other city police departments giving AI a whirl include Lafayette, Indiana and Fort Collins, Colorado, according to lead writer Sean Murphy.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Guide: The Algorithm Kings: Top 100 AI Consumer Apps: Andreessen-Horowitz has released its semi-annual report on the top apps in AI.

The ranking offers an excellent snapshot on who’s who in AI — and how they stack-up against one another.

Not surprisingly, ChatGPT tops the list, followed by Google’s Gemini, Character.ai, Liner and Quillbot.

*ChatGPT Now Clocking 200 Million Users-a-Week: ChatGPT — still the industry standard in AI writing and generative AI — is now reeling-in 200 million active users every week.

Observes writer Kevin Okemwa: “According to OpenAI, ChatGPT’s broad user base is partly attributed to Fortune 500 companies.”

Currently, 92% of the Fortune 500 use ChatGPT, according to Okemwa.

*AI Writing Pioneer Now Plays Nice With All the Cool AI Engines: Anyword — a key player in AI-powered writing for marketers — can now work with a number of AI engines, also known as Large Language Models.

Ideally, this reconfiguration means you’ll be able to use Anyword to auto-generate marketing copy with ChatGPT, Google Gemini and similar AI engines.

Anyword made the switch “with the understanding that content will be created around an organization by many people through different tools and platforms,” according to Yaniv Makover, CEO, Anyword.

*Study: AI Loves a Good Example: The next time you’re looking to prompt an AI engine like ChatGPT to do something for you, you’ll have the best luck showing it an example of what you’re looking for.

Apparently — according to a new study released from Amazon and the University of California — AI engines can achieve “near-perfect accuracy” when relying on examples to reason their way to a solution.

Such reasoning “involves observing specific instances or examples and drawing general conclusions or patterns from them,” according to writer Ben Dickson.

*New AI for Gmail: Looking to Transform Messages from Meh to Marvelous: Paying users of select Google services can now use new AI to help punch-up emails before they tap “send.”

The AI help appears with the message “refine my draft” as soon as you type 12 words or more in Gmail.

Observes writer Wes Davis: “Swipe your thumb across the text, and you’ll be given the choice to Polish, Formalize, Elaborate, or Shorten — or to have Gemini just write a whole new draft for you.”

The catch: You need to be a paying subscriber to Google One AI Premium or Google’s Gemini add-on for Workspace to get access to the new AI.

*Google’s Promised AI Customizations: Your Chatbot, Your Rules, Your Imagination: Users of Google’s Gemini chatbot — a direct competitor to ChatGPT — are being promised they’ll soon be able to create custom versions of the AI featuring distinct personalities and/or special expertise.

Observes writer Emma Roth: “For users who don’t want to create a custom chatbot right away, Google is offering some pre-made ‘Gems,’ including a learning coach, an idea brainstormer, a career guide, a coding partner and an editor.”

ChatGPT already offers users the ability to customize the chatbot — and sell those customizations if they prefer — via the maker’s online store.

*Google: Throwing Millions at California — Hoping It Sticks: Google is promising millions of dollars in its effort to derail proposed California legislation that would force it to pay for news that appears next to its advertising on Google search and similar products.

The cash would be bundled with funds from the state and other sources into a support fund for news organizations that could balloon to as much as $250 million, according to lead writer Karen Weise.

California Governor Gavin Newsom gives the move a big thumbs-up.

But a union representing journalists denounced the deal as a shakedown, according to Weise.

*Forgetful? Now AI Reminds You of Everything You Ignored in Meetings: Otter.ai is rolling-out a new “My Action Items” feature designed to track all of your action items across all of your meetings.

Essentially, whether you’re meeting on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or in-person, the AI assistant is promising to capture all of those action items and store them in a centralized location.

Specific features of My Action Items include:

~Consolidated Action Items: Eliminates the need to search through past meetings, providing a single, centralized view of all assigned tasks.

~Context-Rich Tasks: Offers links back to the specific moment in the conversation where each action item was created, ensuring clarity and accuracy.

~Notifications: Delivers a weekly digest email reminding users of outstanding action items, fostering accountability and completion.

*AI Big Picture: AI’s Price Wars: For Consumers, Rock-Bottom is the Place to Be: Consumers currently have the upper hand when choosing their preferred AI engine.

Observes Gomez: “It’s gonna be like a zero-margin business because there’s so much price dumping. People are giving away the model (AI engine) for free.

“It’ll still be a big business, it’ll still be a pretty high number because people need this tech — it’s growing very quickly — but the margins, at least now, are gonna be very tight.”

Snickered one consumer: “I feel your pain.”

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19.08.2024

Gone Fishin’

By Joe Dysart in News, robotics, Robotics Classification, robots, robots in business, Robots Podcast Tag news

RobotWritersAI.com is playing hooky.

We’ll be back Sept. 2, 2024 with fresh news and analysis on the latest in AI-generated writing.

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12.08.2024

Throwing Caution to the Wind

By Joe Dysart in News, robotics, Robotics Classification, robots, robots in business, Robots Podcast Tag news

Some Colleges Fully Integrate AI Into Coursework

Dismissing concerns that AI is an automated cheating tool, some colleges have decided to fully integrate the tech into their curriculums.

The rationale: AI skills have become so crucial to employment in many industries, it’s more important to skill-up students in the tech than to worry about AI’s other, nefarious uses.

Observes writer Milla Surjadi: “Schools are even going so far as to emphasize that all undergraduates get a taste of the tech, teaching them how to use AI in a given field — as well as its failings and unethical applications.”

Adds Emory University student Jake Golden: “If I don’t learn AI, it’s going to take over everything around me and I’m going to have no idea what’s happening.”

In-Depth Guide: SEO AI Writer Scalenut: Writer Anwesha Roy offers an incredibly detailed guide on Scalenut in this piece — which can also be used as a benchmark to evaluate similar AI SEO writing tools on the market.

The upshot: Facing incredibly fierce competition, Scalenut has grown increasingly sophisticated, including add-on services such as:

~keyword generation

~Web traffic analysis

~link building

~’writing humanization’ of content designed to avoid penalties from search engines for generic-sounding content

~one-click WordPress publishing

Roy’s verdict: “Despite being packed with features, Scalenut is surprisingly easy to use.

“While there’s a learning curve, tutorials on every page and an exhaustive support Web site will help you along.”

*Marketing Mojo: Blaze AI Drops New Playbook for Automating Content : Blaze AI — a kind of Swiss army knife for content creation and publishing — is out with a new guide.

Designed to help marketers get the most from Blaze AI, the new guide offers a collection of checklists, worksheets, cheat sheets, FAQs, swipe files, planners and other resources created to help lighten-the-load in content creation and publishing.

Blaze AI is one of a number of AI marketing platforms that go beyond auto-writing and auto-image creation to offer a suite of AI tools specifically designed for marketers.

*New AI Search for Content Clearinghouse: Now You Don’t Even Have to Skim: Scribd — an online depository of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, documents and the like — has added AI-powered search to its service.

Dubbed ‘AskAI,’ the new tool enables users to ask questions and get answers about specific documents in the clearinghouse.

AskAI can analyze documents of up to 1,000 pages and in just a few seconds return key takeaways, extract specific data from the text or expand on concepts found in the document.

*Bot Bargain: ChatGPT-Maker Cuts Prices for Developers, Consumers Win: Good news for AI users: OpenAI has reduced the price of developer services offered via its flagship AI engine GPT-4o.

Ideally, that translates into lower prices for AI-powered consumer apps that developers are building atop the tech.

Observes writer Pradeep Viswanathan: The ongoing price war between OpenAI and Google — marked by recent significant price reductions from both companies — is a promising development for developers.

“This increased competition is expected to drive innovation, leading to even more powerful and accessible large language models in the future.”

*Ten-Second Videos, Free-of-Charge: Writers working with text-to-video may want to give Kling AI a whirl, a new service currently offering free use credits.

KlingAI is designed to generate videos up to ten seconds long.

It also enables control of camera movements for the videos it renders, including panning, tilting and zooming.

Currently, users can create three, 10-second videos per day with Kling AI, free-of-charge.

*Shocker: Students Use AI to Cheat: A new study finds that the second most popular use for ChatGPT and similar AI chatbots is for cheating by students.

Think homework and the prompt, ‘Explain the Monroe Doctrine in a sentence.’

Observes writer Katie Notopoulos: “If I were an 11th-grader right now, I suspect I’d probably be pretty enthused.”

*AI-Automated Report Writers: The Future of Last-Minute Deadlines?: Orbis Research has released an in-depth analysis on the current and future market in AI-powered report writing tools.

Besides listing widely popular, general use AI tools in its evaluation, Orbis also unearthed a few AI tools specifically designed to auto-write reports, including:

~Report X

~Real Fast Reports

~Paperpal

*Begging Made Easy: Five AI Grant Writing Tools to Try: AI content generators are proliferating so rapidly, there are already a number of tools specifically designed to auto-write grants.

ICT offers snapshot reviews of four of those:

Interestingly, ICT included ChatGPT in its grant-writing tools roundup, rating the blockbuster chatbot as ‘somewhat useful’ for the specific purpose of grant proposal writing.

*AI Big Picture: AI-Powered Productivity Gains: Much Ado About Nothing?: A new study finds that 77% of workers complain that AI is actually increasing their workload and decreasing productivity.

One potential explanation: Employers may not be doing enough to train employees in the new tech.

Observes writer Sergio De Simone: “Despite their expectations about the benefits of using AI tools, approximately three-quarters of surveyed executives admit they have no training plan in place for their workforce.

“And only 13% maintain they developed a well-implemented strategy.”

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