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Upgraded ChatGPT Thinks at the PhD Level

OpenAI is out with a new upgrade to ChatGPT that features extremely advanced, in-depth thinking — and outperforms PhD students in physics, chemistry and biology.

The software undergirding the new upgrade — dubbed OpenAI o1 — also offers head-turning new performance highs in math and computer coding.

While the jury is still out on the upgrade’s impact on ChatGPT’s automated writing skills, people who make lots of money every day by relying heavily on writing — i.e., lawyers — will want to take a close look at this enhancement.

The reason: According to OpenAI’s in-house tests, this latest version of its AI software scored 95-out-of-100 on the Law School Admissions Test.

Yikes.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Guide: The Top 50 AI Writing Tools to Try: Copywriters looking for a round-up on the latest AI tools designed to make their jobs easier will want to take a look at this piece.

It offers a great overview of the most popular — and most groundbreaking AI tools — in their writing genre.

In addition to well-known AI writers, the guide also explores lesser-known, niche tools, including:

~Writerly, which includes a generative AI Chrome extension that helps users extract ideas from articles during browsing and generates content briefs for writers

~GetGenie, a WordPress plugin that uses AI to replace over 10 different apps.

~TextCortex, an AI Writer designed to accommodate your distinct writing style and singular writing requirements

*Goodbye, Ramblin’ Rose: New WordPress Tool Goes for Writing Clarity: The maker of WordPress has come out with a new AI tool designed to make your posts clearer and more succinct.

Dubbed ‘Write Brief with AI,’ the tool alerts users if their prose uses too many words — or if their wording ‘lacks confidence.’

The new tool could significantly improve writing on Web sites worldwide, given that 43% of all Web sites run on WordPress.

*ESPN AI To Cover Women’s Soccer: Because Mansplaining 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.

Observes writer Kevin Maimann: One of the most prominent suspect authors is “Mari Silva, who has 532 titles on a vast range of spiritual and cultural topics spanning world history, but no visible online presence outside of a vague Amazon author bio with a generic silhouetted photo of a woman.”

*AI Big Picture: AI — Now With Emotions: Finally, Robots That Understand Your Existential Dread: A psychologist who specializes in measuring emotion has come out with a new app that imbues AI 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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–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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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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–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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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.

Makers of the AI — which undergirds most of the world’s most popular AI chatbots — are essentially giving away developer access to their AI based on hopes that there will be profit in the tech long-term, according to Aidan Gomez, CEO, Cohere.

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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–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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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:

~Grantable

~Grant Orb

~Grant Assistant

~GrantBoost

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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–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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ChatGPT With Voice Gets Another Run

OpenAI’s second try with AI voice appears to be a winner, according to a new piece in Ars Technica.

Early tests shared by users on social media have been largely enthusiastic, according to writer Benj Edwards.

Apparently, people are responding positively to the tool’s ability — with voice — to sense emotional cues and provide sound effects while telling stories, according to Edwards.

They also like that ChatGPT voice allows users to interrupt in mid-sentence.

OpenAI was forced to put testing of voice-enabled ChatGPT on hold earlier this year after actress Scarlett Johansson complained one of the AI voices offered by ChatGPT sounded just like her.

*In-Depth Guide: Getting Chatty With Google Workspace — AI Pro Tips Google has rolled-out a new primer designed to help you get the most from its new AI upgrade to Workspace.

Observes writer Molly McHugh-Johnson: “‘Gemini in the Workspace’ side panel allows you to chat with Gemini across Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive — all without ever leaving the app you’re in.”

The pro tips focus primarily on how to chat with Gemini — or prompt it — to ensure it understands what you’re trying to achieve.

*Making the Most of AI Tools: One Writer’s Alchemy for Success: With so many AI content creation tools on the market right now, writers have plenty to cherry pick when it comes to mixing AI with more traditional tools.

Social Media Examiner offers one marketer’s AI mix, which includes ChatGPT, OpusClip, Castmagic and Notion.

Observes writer Michael Stelzner: “AI can be a huge time-saver, helping with tasks that take up a lot of time but aren’t your favorite parts of content creation, like helping you to improve your writing for your landing pages and captions for your social media posts.”

*Google’s Answer to ChatGPT’s Dumber, Cheaper AI Engine: Google is out with a lighter-weight AI engine that’s not quite state-of-the-art — but is a lot cheaper to run.

Dubbed Gemma 2, the almost-as-good AI engine is part of a growing trend in AI in which industry players are offering slightly less formidable results in exchange for bargain rates.

Ultimately, it appears that the AI engine market may come to resemble the auto market in coming years — you’ll be able to choose from your Ferraris and your Mitsubishi Mirages — and everything in between.

*Blink-of-An-Eye: Popular Web-Authoring Platform Now Automates Posts: Wix has upped-its-game with a new AI suite “that can produce entire SEO-optimized blog posts, right down to the imagery,” according to writer Jess Weatherbed.

One compelling reason to add a blog: Web sites that feature blogs get 86% more organic traffic than those without, according Einat Halperin, blog general manager, Wix.

Adds Weatherbed: “The new blogging tools also allow business users to connect their blogs to the Wix business solutions platform, enabling them to access features like sending promotional emails to subscribers and linking blog content to pricing plans.”

*Goodbye Scribbles: Digitizes Your Handwritten Notes With ChatGPT: The days of squinting at your scribbling to figure-out what you meant may be coming to an end.

ChatGPT is now able to ingest your handwritten notes — for free — so you can use them in the digital world.

Observes writer Sabrina Ortiz: “Sounds too good to be true? I thought the same, but after testing the tool, I can assure you that it works efficiently and quickly.

*University of Florida: Now With Artificial Intelligence: Add UF to the growing number of colleges and universities integrating AI into their writing courses.

Observes Zea Miller: ” “I’m preparing my students to compete across the AI landscape.

“We must build AI literacy so our students can thrive in this new world.”

*82% of College Students Add AI to Their Toolkit: A new Quizlet study finds that 82% of college students are now using AI — with 58% of high school students also onboard.

Observes Meghann Lomas, senior director of product management, Quizlet: “College students are adopting AI at a rapid pace, illustrating that this technology isn’t a trend but rather a profound shift in how they learn and engage with curriculum.”

The survey was based on responses from 1,000 students aged 14-22 and 500 teachers, all based in the U.S.

*AI Big Picture: Facebook Founder Betting Billions More on AI: Despite fierce competition, Mark Zuckerberg is soldiering with continued new investment in AI, according to writer Mike Isaac.

Specifically, Facebook parent Meta invested $8.5 billion on AI in this year’s second quarter — and it may invest significantly more by year’s end, according to Isaac.

Observes Isaac: “The moves are driven by heavy investments in AI infrastructure, including data centers, chip designs and research and development.”

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ChatGPT-Maker Releases New Bargain Version

OpenAI has released a new chatbot that’s almost as good as its flagship AI engine — ChatGPT 4o — and much cheaper to run.

Dubbed “ChatGPT 4o Mini,” the new AI engine is free-to-use on a limited basis to anyone visiting the ChatGPT Web site.

ChatGPT 4o Mini is expected to be a hit with developers looking to build AI applications atop the AI engine, which OpenAI says costs 60% less to run.

An important note: While ChatGPT 4o Mini is less advanced as the OpenAI flagship version, it’s still plenty smart.

ChatGPT 4o Mini, for example, beats-out the original AI software that powered ChatGPT to world fame and frenzy in late 2022, according to OpenAI test reports.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Guide: 10 Best AI SEO Tools: Writers looking for a nice round-up of AI-powered tools specializing in search engine optimization may want to check-out this piece.

The guide offers a short-and-sweet summary of ten AI-powered SEO tools that writer Antoine Tardif considers tops.

Observes Tardif: “By leveraging these technologies, you can streamline your SEO efforts, produce high-quality content and improve your website’s visibility and user experience.”

*The MVP of AI Chatbots?: Facebook Founder Takes Another Swing for the Fences: Longtime AI evangelist Mark Zuckerberg has updated his challenge to ChatGPT, dubbed, Llama 3.1.

Observes writer Anuj Mudaliar: “While both models (AI engines) are thought to exhibit excellent performance in natural language processing, Llama 3.1’s relatively smaller parameter size may limit its ability to complete complex tasks, as GPT-4 works on 1.76 trillion parameters.

“However, practical performance is yet to be measured by users on a wide scale.”

*Très magnifique?: French AI Startup Says It’s Built a Better ChatGPT: French AI startup Mistral is out with its own competitor to ChatGPT, which it says matches — and sometimes exceeds — the market leader’s performance.

For example: Mistral’s ability to auto-generate accurate computer code is actually better than the most robust version of ChatGPT — ChatGPT 4o — according to the company.

Dubbed Mistral Large 2, the new AI engine is available on Google Vertex AI, Azure AI Studio, Amazon Bedrock and IBM watsonx.ai.

*Scribblers Rejoice!: Microsoft Promising to Transform Chicken Scratch Into Digital Gold: Users of MS Copilot in OneNote may soon have access to a tool that enables input into OneNote via handwritten stylus.

The overall goal is for MS Copilot to ingest the handwritten notes and then enable users to auto-generate written summaries, ask questions of the data they’ve entered and auto-generate to-do lists based on the notes.

Currently, the new tool is in beta testing.

*Can We Talk?: When Study Data Becomes a Conversationalist: Research software firm Recollective is out with a new AI tool that offers conversational access to qualitative research.

Observes Alfred Jay, CEO, Recollective: “Our new AI features are designed to complement and enhance the way researchers work, enabling them to focus on what truly matters: extracting actionable insights and creating compelling narratives.”

Specifically, researchers can pose targeted questions to the study data they’ve gathered and engage in a dialog with the research to unveil insights and trends they may have otherwise missed.

*Humanizey AI Hawks Solution to Bot-Babble: Writers looking for a more ‘human feel’ from writing auto-generated by AI may want to give AI Humanizer a test-drive.

The tool is designed to auto-rewrite text produced by AI chatbots so that it sounds more human.

Plus, the resulting, re-written text also should bypass detection as ‘AI generated’ when assessed by AI writing detectors such as GPTZero, Turnitin and Originality AI, according to David Holand, CEO, Humanizey AI.

*Another AI News Anchor Pops-Up: Because Humans Are So Yesterday: Add South Korean cable TV channel MBN to the growing list of news outlets using AI-powered news anchors to present the news.

This one is actually a knock-off of a human news anchor on the channel — Kim Ju-ha — and is programmed to look exactly like Ju-ha and mimic the female news anchor mannerisms.

Observes the AI bot, dubbed Al Kim: “I was created through deep learning 10 hours of video of Kim Ju-ha, learning the details of her voice, the way she talks, facial expressions, the way her lips move, and the way she moves her body.

“I am able to report news exactly the way that anchor Kim Ju-ha would.”

*Going for Google’s Jugular: ChatGPT-Maker Tinkers With New Search Engine: OpenAI is currently testing an AI-powered search engine it hopes will unseat Google as the King of Search.

Observes writer Deepa Seetharaman: “The tool, called SearchGPT, will summarize the information found on Web sites, including news sites and let users ask follow-up questions — just as they can currently with OpenAI’s popular chatbot, ChatGPT.

“SearchGPT is OpenAI’s most direct challenge yet to Google’s dominance in search since the release of ChatGPT in 2022 caught the tech company flat-footed.”

*Fast Times at AI High: New Startup Looking to Build ‘AI-First’ Schools: Former OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy is looking to redefine education by building new schools with AI at their core.

Karpathy describes his new venture, dubbed ‘Eureka Labs,’ as a “new kind of school that is AI native,” with the express aim of developing a “Teacher + AI symbiosis” that will allow “anyone to learn anything,” according to writer Andrew Tarantola.

Karpathy “envisions an education system built from the ground-up with AI as its core tenet — with human teachers developing lesson plans while being supplemented in the classroom by digital assistants,” Tarantola adds.

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ChatGPT-Generated Exam Answers Dupe Profs

Looks like college take-home tests are destined to suffer the same fate as the Dodo bird.

Instructors at a U.K. university learned as much after a slew of take-home exams featuring answers generated by ChatGPT passed with flying colors — all while evading virtually any suspicions of cheating.

Observes writer Richard Adams: “Researchers at the University of Reading fooled their own professors by secretly submitting AI-generated exam answers that went undetected and got better grades than real students.

“The university’s markers – who were not told about the project – flagged only one of the 33 entries.”

Observes Karen Yeung, a professor at the University of Birmingham: “The publication of this real-world quality assurance test demonstrates very clearly that the generative AI tools — freely and openly available — enable students to cheat take-home examinations without difficulty.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Guide: Lovo AI Text-to-Voice: Writers looking for a reliable text-to-voice solution may want to give Lovo AI a whirl, according to Sharqa Hameed.

Hameed’s guide on the product is extremely valuable in that it offers scores of step-by-step screenshots that truly give you a detailed look at how Lovo AI works.

Hameed’s verdict on the app: “Overall, I’d rate it 4 out of 5.

“It offers various valuable features, including Genny, Auto Subtitle Generator, Text to Speech, Online Video Editor, AI Art Generator, AI Writer and more.

“However, its free version limits you to convert up to 20 minutes of text to audio.”

*Free-for-All: Open Source Promises Wide Array of AI Writing Tools: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg predicts that writers and others will continue to have a number of AI choices as the tech grows ever–more sophisticated.

A key player in AI writing/chat tech, Zuckerberg has released his AI code as open-source — available to any and all to use and alter.

Observes Zuckerberg: “I don’t think that AI technology is a thing that should be kind of hoarded and — that one company gets to use it to build whatever central, single product that they’re building.”

*Grand Claims, Meh Results: Google’s AI Falls Short: Apparently, Google’s Gemini — the AI that powers its direct competition to ChatGPT — is not all it’s cracked up to be.

Observes writer Kyle Wiggers: “In press briefings and demos, Google has repeatedly claimed that the models can accomplish previously impossible tasks thanks to their ‘long context.'”

Those tasks include summarizing multiple hundred-page documents or searching across scenes in film footage.

“But new research suggests that the models aren’t, in fact, very good at those things,” Wiggers adds.

*Freelance Writing Dreams Disappearing in a Puff of Code: Add freelancers to the growing list of workers discovering that AI is less a ‘helpful buddy’ and more a ruthless job stealer.

Case in point: Since the advent of ChatGPT, job opportunities in freelance writing have declined 21%, according to a newly updated study.

Observes writer Laura Bratton: “Research shows that easily-automated writing and (computer) coding jobs are being replaced by AI.”

*Privacy Ninja: New AI Email Promises to Guard Your Secrets: Proton, an email provider long-prized for its heavy emphasis on privacy, has added AI to its mix.

Specifically, its newly released AI writing assistant ‘Proton Scribe’ is designed to help users auto-write and proofread their emails.

Observes writer Paul Sawers: “Proton Scribe can be deployed entirely at the local device level — meaning user data doesn’t leave the device.

“Moreover, Proton promises that its AI assistant won’t learn from user data — a particularly important feature for enterprise use cases, where privacy is paramount.”

*Forget Solitaire: Claude Turns AI Writing into a Collaborative Party Game: ChatGPT competitor Claude has a new feature that enables users to publish, share and remix the AI writing and other content that they generate with one another.

Observes writer Eric Hal Schwartz: “Essentially, you can open published ‘Artifacts’ created by others and modify or build upon them through conversations with Claude.

“Anthropic is pitching it as a way to foster a collaborative environment.”

*Robo Lawyer: For Many Attorneys, AI Still a Boogeyman: Despite its considerable benefits to the legal community, AI is viewed warily by many lawyers and pros.

Specifically, 77% of professionals recently surveyed by Thomson Reuters saw AI as a threat to lawyers.

Observes Artificial Lawyer: “While some very innovative lawyers are comfortable with AI and have few worries about the legal world’s imminent demise, there are plenty of lawyers out there who still feel very uncertain about what this all means for them, the profession, and their firms.”

*ChatGPT Mind-Meld: New Hope For the Paralyzed: A man slowly succumbing to paralysis has been given new hope with ChatGPT, which is enabling him to text using his brain waves.

Using a brain implant, the man is able to translate his thoughts into text commands — generated by ChatGPT — which he uses to operate computerized communication devices.

Observes the patient: “You get choices of how you might respond in several different ways.

“So rather than me typing single words, I’m hitting one or two buttons or clicks, if you will, and I’ve got the majority of a sentence done.”

*AI Big Picture: AI Gold Rush Still Runs Hot: Nearly 20 months after ChatGPT introduced a stunned world to the potential of AI, businesses across the world are still clamoring to bring the newly commercialized tech onboard.

Observes writer Ben Dickson: “Most organizations are spending hefty amounts to either explore generative AI use cases or have already implemented them in production,” according to a new survey of 200 IT leaders.

“Nearly three-fourths (73%) of respondents plan to spend more than $500,000 on generative AI in the next 12 months, with almost half (46%) allocating more than $1 million,” Dickson adds.

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Says Microsoft: We’re going to help ourselves to your Web content, thank you

Apparently, when it comes to copyright law, Microsoft never got the memo.

According to Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s CEO of AI, as reported by writer Sean Endicott: “With respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 90s has been that it is fair use.

“Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it. That has been freeware, if you like. That’s been the understanding.”

The only currently ‘in-dispute’ exception to Microsoft’s ‘I’ll-help-myself, thanks’ perspective, according to Suleyman, are Web sites and publishers that explicitly state on their Web sites “do not scrape or crawl me for any other reason than indexing me so that other people can find that content.”

And according to Suleyman, even that warning is a ‘gray area’ that he believes will wind up in the courts.

Really?

That’s news to me.

Perhaps Sulyman should visit the U.S. Copyright Office on the Web, whose history domain documents that the first copyright law was enacted in the U.S. in 1790.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Guide: Snapshot on the Big Four in AI Writing: Writers looking for the latest on AI writing from the Big Four — OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Facebook parent Meta — can check-out this latest update.

The piece offers perspectives on the tech from a number of digitally oriented businesses based in India.

Observes Sajal Gupta, chief executive, Kiaos Marketing, a digital marketing consultancy: “The key is to integrate AI so seamlessly into your toolkit that it appears as natural as it possibly can.

“From a consumer’s perspective, if the tools are implemented well, the experience will only improve.”

*Google Adding It’s New AI to Gmail, Other Products: Many Gmail users already have access to new generative AI from Google, which they can use for auto-writing text, summarizing an email thread, searching through their inbox using AI — and more.

Powered by Google’s Gemini AI engine, the new feature can be found on Gmail’s side panel and can be activated with a click.

Roll-out of the new AI — which will also be popping up in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive — should be complete by the close of July

*Microsoft Adds ChatGPT Competitor to its AI Offerings: Making good on its commitment to featuring a wide spectrum of AI services throughout its product line, Microsoft is integrating Writesonic into its Azure cloud infrastructure.

The ChatGPT competitor — which specializes in content creation and search engine optimization — gets to showcase its chops to businesses already using Azure.

*ChatGPT Competitor Gets an Upgrade: AI writing pioneer Writer has just launched an upgrade capable of ingesting and analyzing a document of up to 10 million words.

Observes Deanna Dong, product marketing lead, Writer: “We know that enterprises need to analyze very long files, work with long research papers, or documentation. It’s a huge use case for them.”

Also new with the upgrade is added transparency into what Writer’s AI is going.

Observes writer Michael Nunez: “The system shows users the steps the AI takes — including how it breaks down queries into sub-questions and which specific data sources it references.”

*Multi-Faceted AI Copywriter for Marketing Released: Given that automated AI writing is essentially a commodity now, startups specializing in AI marketing tools are increasingly coming out with offerings that do much more.

Singapore-based Addlly AI is no exception.

The company just released a beefed-up automated writing tool that is able to reference brand data — and incorporate analytical insights gleaned from social listening –as it creates copy for marketers.

Observes Tina Chopra, CEO, Addlly AI: “By merging cutting-edge AI technology with valuable data insights, we help businesses produce content that’s not just fast and more targeted, but also highly relevant and impactful.”

*New AI-Automated Email Service Launches: CallSine is offering a new email marketing service that uses customer data to auto-generate highly personalized email marketing pitches.

Observes Logan Kelly, president, CallSine: “Unlike generic AI tools, we build a detailed knowledge base about your company and prospects.

“This allows us to use AI to generate truly relevant and tailored messaging beyond acknowledging a prospect’s standard profile information.”

*New AI-for-Lawyers Startup Wins a Trial Run: Legal tech AI service Leya — which offers lawyers auto-writing of draft contracts and similar AI services — has scored a tryout with law firm Bird & Bird.

Observes Karen Jacks, chief technology officer, Bird & Bird, added: “This proof of concept trial with Leya is the latest addition to our GenAI toolkit and will be an important part of our five-year strategy as we guide organizations through a world shaped by technology, innovation and regulation, and driving the transformation of legal services delivery.”

*Growing Pains: Another Unsupervised AI News Site Goes Rogue: When will they learn?

Tennis tournament Wimbeldon became the latest organization to realize that while AI auto-written content sure is convenient — it still needs human supervision right now.

Wimbledon’s blunder: It’s AI-powered ‘Catch-Me-Up’ news services — designed to auto-write pre-and-post-match player profiles with AI-generated stories and analysis — began spitting-out error-ridden copy on its first day of use.

Observes writer Emine Sinmaz: “The new offering on Wimbledon’s app and website described the former US Open champion Emma Raducanu as the British No 1, although she is the No 3. The 21-year-old who grew up in Bromley was also described as having won 11 matches so far this year, when she has had 14 triumphs.

“It also described a clash between 35-year-old Zhang Shuai, a two-time doubles grand slam champion from China who is on a losing streak, and Russia’s Daria Kasatkina, 27, as an “eagerly anticipated encounter between two up-and-coming players.”

As many have uttered down through the ages: Trust — by verify.

*AI Big Picture: ChatGPT Maker Gets Real About AI and the Military: AI users concerned that increasing breakthoughs in AI may be falling into the wrong hands should be cheered by the appointment of Paul M. Nakasone — a former director of the U.S. National Security Agency — to the board of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.

Granted, many ‘effective altruists’ are sure to decry the new presence of a military perspective on AI’s board.

But there are plenty of others who believe the U.S. needs to continually ‘what-if’ how AI may be used nefariously and how to protect against it — given that there are plenty of rogue nations already deeply engaged in the pursuit.

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Courtesy ChatGPT and Grammarly

Among ChatGPT’s myriad editorial skills is its ability to proofread your text at an extremely high level of proficiency.

And if all you’re looking for is an occasional proofread, you’ll find you can get help from ChatGPT — combined with similar AI tools — for free.

I began using ChatGPT as a back-up proofer for my primary proofreading tool — Grammarly — after I saw it consistently catching errors in text that Grammarly was missing.

Granted, the errors ChatGPT catches are generally minuscule (Grammarly really is an excellent proofreading tool, among its many other charms).

But sometimes, ChatGPT does catch outright misspellings that simply fly by Grammarly.

And on average, I find that ChatGPT spotlights about one-to-three errors that are missed by Grammarly per one thousand words of text.

One of the great beauties of creating a proofreading prompt for ChatGPT (a sample of one of mine follows) is that you can design it to do proofreading exactly as you prefer.

My proofer prompt, for example, instructs ChatGPT to retype the entire text it’s proofing, highlight each error it finds in bold, offer a suggested correction — and then explain its rationale for making each correction.

That may be overkill for some people.

But I prefer double-checking ChatGPT’s work myself and being given a sound reason for making a change — rather than simply trusting ChatGPT to ‘correct’ my text with no oversight.

I also greatly appreciate that I can add new rules to my ChatGPT proofer — or take some rules away — by simply changing a few words in the prompt.

And I really like the fact that my proofer grows more powerful with every upgrade of ChatGPT’s software.

For example: The ChatGPT proofer I use most (below) is more powerful and more meticulous in its proofreading when used with the most advanced version of ChatGPT — ChatGPT 4o — as compared to its use with previous versions of ChatGPT.

As with many things ChatGPT, your success designing a proofer hinges mightily on the precise wording of your prompt.

Sure, you can design a proofer with something simple like: “You are an expert proofreader. Please proofread the following text and highlight the errors in bold.”

But I’ve had better luck using a longer prompt that spells out — in excruciating detail — exactly what I’m looking for.

For example: In addition to asking for an error scan, I also ask ChatGPT to be meticulous as it’s scanning, to focus intensely on its task, to get extremely granular in its inspection (such as identifying correct placement of periods) and similar.

But simultaneously, I’m also careful not to overload ChatGPT with too many different kinds of requests in a single prompt — which can needlessly slow down ChatGPT, or even confuse it entirely.

As previously indicated, if you’re only looking to do some occasional proofreading, you can do so for free using ChatGPT and other tools and still enjoy a high level of performance.

For example: You can sign-up for Grammarly’s free version, which will do a basic, highly effective proofread of your text at absolutely no charge.

And then you can head over to ChatGPT, where you can double-check Grammarly’s work using free, limited access to ChatGPT’s most advanced AI engine, ChatGPT 4o.

Granted, you can only input about 15 prompts every three hours using ChatGPT-4o’s free version.

But if you only have a few documents to double-check for proofing, you’re all set.

For more extended, free proofing, you can also use Grammarly in combination with Gemini Advanced — Google’s direct competitor to ChatGPT-4o.

The reason: Gemini Advanced is based on the same genre of AI technology that powers ChatGPT. So a prompt developed for use with ChatGPT will also work flawlessly with Gemini Advanced.

Plus, Gemini Advanced currently offers an extremely generous, two-month free trial.

So chances are, you can theoretically proof an entire book if you so desired — over time — just using Grammarly’s free version, in concert with the Google Gemini Advanced’s free trial.

Another bonus: Given that the lion’s share of AI writers/tools on the market right now use the same genre of AI technology as ChatGPT and Gemini Advanced, you can also use any prompt initially developed for ChatGPT in any other AI tool based on the same genre of AI tech, including:

Jasper

Sudowrite

Anyword

INK

Scalenut

Neuraltext

Writesonic

Wordtune

Sapling

Notion Labs

Copy.ai

Rytr

Chibi AI

Surfer

Article Forge

WordAI

AI Writer

Hypotenuse AI

Longshot

CreaitorAI

CopySmith

OpenAI

Writer

GrowthBar

Closerscopy

ParagraphAI

Frase

A final tip before we take a look at a sample proofer: It’s always best to design your proofer as a stand-alone prompt — followed by a second prompt that you use to actually input the text you want proofed.

This technique ensures that you’re not giving ChatGPT too many words and/or too much data to process in any one prompt.

Even better: Inputting your text in a second prompt also expands the number of words ChatGPT will proofread for you, given that ChatGPT can only process and understand so many words in any given prompt.

In any event, here’s one of the homespun proofers I use when I’m proofing with Grammarly and I’m looking for ChatGPT to do an extremely granular double-check of Grammarly’s work:

Joe Dysart’s Proofer Prompt:

[You are a seasoned, award-winning expert in proofreading. Please conduct a meticulous, line-by-line proofread of text that I will provide you in the next prompt.

Focus intensely on the following aspects:

*Technical Accuracy: Identify and correct errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization and formatting.

*Other Technical Errors: Identify and correct other technical errors not specifically listed in this prompt.

*Correct Placement of Periods and Quotes: Pay special attention to the placement of periods and quotes. Identify and correct any incorrect placement of periods and quotes and incorrect spacing associated with them.

*Consistency: Identify and correct inconsistent use of terminology, names, spelling, formatting and internal style rules (if applicable).

*Specific Conventions: Verify that the following conventions are employed:

~Allow the use of slang
~Allow the use of sentence fragments
~Allow the use of sentences that start with And
~Allow the use of sentences that start with But

To report the errors you find:

*Preserve Original: Retype the entire text with your changes.

*Highlight Errors: Highlight each error you find in bold.

*Provide Correction: Offer your correction for each error in parentheses directly after the bolded error.

*Explain Correction: For each correction you make using boldface type, please explain the correction, also in boldface type, using the format in the following example, which is delineated by three quote symbols “””solider (soldier) — The word soldier was misspelled.”””

*Always keep in mind your overarching goal: Your overarching goal is to provide the most comprehensive, meticulous proofreading of the text as possible.

Please indicate that you fully understand these proofreading instructions and have stored the instructions with the statement: I fully understand these proofreading instructions and have stored the instructions. Please input the text you’d like proofread with your next prompt using the words, “Here’s the text to proofread:”]

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A slew of major stories in AI writing that broke in Q2 have made the future for writers and editors crystal clear: The wholesale transition of writing-by-humans to writing-by-AI-machines has begun.

Fading are the days when publishers and AI evangelists hid behind the euphemism that AI writers are just Silicon buddies looking to shoulder the drudge work so their human counterparts can do more interesting work.

And in their place are increasingly candid, bald admissions — or unquestionable evidence of the same — of a common-sense reality that anyone paying close attention to AI has known for years.

Specifically: If words are your stock-in-trade and AI-powered machines can do your kind of writing much faster — and much more inexpensively — it makes no sense to keep you employed.

A few examples of that new reality from Q2:

~Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, predicts that AI will ultimately usurp 95% of all marketing work currently performed by agencies, strategists and creatives

~The BBC reports that a publisher reduced its writing and editorial staff from 60+ to a single, lone editor — simply by switching to AI

~A Swedish financial company reduced its marketing costs by $10 million, simply by funneling that marketing work to AI rather than to outside, human creatives

~WPP — the world’s largest ad agency — cut a deal to bring in Google Gemini, a ChatGPT competitor, to help write ad scripts, auto-create narration and auto-generate product images

~Newsweek announced it’s all-in on AI and has plans to integrate the tech into the magazine’s operations as deeply as possible

Granted, news editors and reporters still have some cover, given that AI in many instances still does not have the trust and sources to unearth new data from the world — and then work that new information into news stories.

But for writers in marketing, copywriting and similar jobs who are playing around with ideas and concepts — but not bringing fresh data to their audiences — there is only one recourse: They need to get smart, very quickly, on how to best leverage AI writing tools in their day-to-day work.

And once they’re up-to-speed, they need to engage with that AI knowing that like the 60+ copywriting shop that was shrunken down to a single editor by AI, they still may be out-the-door — no matter how sophisticated their AI smarts.

Here’s detail on the wholesale migration, along with other key stories that shaped the growing impact of AI writing in Q2:

*ChatGPT CEO: AI Will Usurp 95% of Marketing Work: In a stunning moment of candor, ChatGPT CEO Sam Altman has stated that AI will usurp 95% of all the marketing work currently performed by agencies, strategists and creatives.

Altman’s prediction can be found in a new book — offered by subscription — “Our AI Journey,” by Adam Brotman and Andy Sack.

Observes Mike Kaput, chief content officer, Marketing AI Institute, in reaction to Altman’s reported prediction: “To say it blew us away is an understatement.”

Altman’s exact words, according to Brotman and Sack, were: “95% of what marketers use agencies, strategists, and creative professionals for today will easily, nearly instantly and at almost no cost be handled by the AI.

“And the AI will likely be able to test the creative against real or synthetic customer focus groups for predicting results and optimizing.

“Again — all free, instant and nearly perfect. Images, videos, campaign ideas? No problem.”

For more on Altman’s revelation, check out this riveting article by Kaput.

Keep on rockin’ in the free world.

*The Myth of the ‘Cheery, AI Collaborator’: AI Reduces 60+ Copywriting Team to One Editor: In yet another bone-chilling example of how AI is hollowing-out copywriting teams, this BBC report details how AI turned a 60+ copywriting team into a one-man operation.

First introduced by the publisher in 2023, AI slowly began to usurp more and more jobs until by 2024, everyone on the team was vaporized save for one, lone editor.

Observes the last of the team, who chooses to remain anonymous: “All of a sudden, I was just doing everyone’s job.

“Mostly, it was just about cleaning things up and making the writing sound less awkward, cutting-out weirdly formal or over-enthusiastic language.

“It was more editing than I had to do with human writers, but it was always the exact same kinds of edits. The real problem was it was just so repetitive and boring. It started to feel like I was the robot.”

That account is a long way from current-day AI evangelism, which insists AI is little more than a warm-and-fuzzy friend who will always help you — and never hurt.

For editors and writers who are not tasked with unearthing fresh news data in their jobs, the message is clear: Increasingly, staying alive in copyediting has become a fight to be ‘the last one standing.’

*Pink Slip Heaven: Scores of Jobs Go Bye-Bye as Marketing Department Embraces AI: Remember that cheerful AI assistant and ‘collaborator’ that was going to free-up your days so you could indulge in much more meaningful work?

It just took your job.

Writer Megan Graham reports that $10 million worth of marketing work that would have gone to content creators for a Swedish financial company is now handled by AI.

Observes Graham: “Using generative AI tools such as Midjourney and DALL-E saved the company $1.5 million on image production costs in the first quarter — while slashing its image development timeline to seven days from six weeks.

“Klarna also said it had decreased by 25% its spending on external marketing suppliers (code-phrase for editors, writers and graphic artists) for tasks such as social media, translation and production.”

*Newsweek Goes Full AI: Reporters That Boot-up in Seconds: Brushing aside fears of editorial job loss, Newsweek has fully embraced AI and is looking to integrate the tech as deeply as possible into the magazine’s operations.

Says Jennifer Cunningham, executive editor, Newsweek: “I think that the difference between newsrooms that embrace AI and newsrooms that shun AI is really going to prove itself over the next several months and years.

“We have really embraced AI as an opportunity — and not some sort of boogeyman that’s lurking in the newsroom.”

We’ll see.

*Dreams Of AI Mojo: World’s Largest Ad Agency Partners With Google: In a head-turning move, WPP — parent company of some of the biggest agencies in advertising — has reached-out to Google for AI enhancement.

Specifically, the company is looking to integrate Google’s Gemini AI into its services to auto-write ad scripts, automate ad narration and auto-generate product images.

Observes Stephan Pretorious, Chief Technology Officer, WPP: “I believe this will be a game-changer for our clients and the marketing industry at large.”

*AI Now Crafts Fictional Characters While You Nap: AI pioneer Sudowrite is promising a new module writers can use to auto-build personality traits, background, physical appearances and mannerisms for fictional characters.

Also promised is a new world-building tool that will enable writers to auto-design fictional worlds ranging from dystopian cities to magical realms.

The AI tool — which uses AI engines like GPT-4 and Claude 3 to work its magic — will also be enhanced system-wide to enable writers to auto-generate fiction more efficiently.

*Apple Goes All In on ChatGPT: It’s official: One of the world’s richest and mightiest tech companies has turned to ChatGPT to bring AI to its smartphone.

A major coup for ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI, the deal will bring ChatGPT to millions of iPhone users who are running — or will be running — iOS 18 software on their devices.

The Times of India also reports that Apple may feature ChatGPT competitors on its iPhone as well — such as Google Gemini.

But so far, no such deals have been inked.

*Thousands of Free, ChatGPT Competitors Pop-Up on the Web: Thousands of free, alternative versions of a new AI engine released by Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook fame are popping-up on the Web.

The reason: Zuckerberg released his new AI engine — dubbed Llama 3 –as free, open source code that can be downloaded and altered by anyone interested in doing a little tinkering.

This is great news for consumers, given that thousands upon thousands of AI pros are coming up with competitive — and free — AI alternatives to proprietary AI solutions like ChatGPT.

That forces market leaders like OpenAI — the maker of ChatGPT — to continually develop ever-more-sophisticated versions of their tech.

And it makes it much tougher for OpenAI and similar proprietary companies to raise prices aggressively when thousands of free alternatives abound.

*Less Popular Than Your Average Cat Video: Only 23% of U.S. Adults Have Tried ChatGPT: Nearly a year-and-a-half since ChatGPT first stunned the world, only 23% of U.S. adults have actually used it, according to a new study from Pew.

For many who track the tech closely — and see the emergence of ChatGPT and similar AI as a pivotal moment in the history of humanity — the meager adoption rate is tough to understand.

Not surprisingly, young adults under 30 are most enthusiastic about ChatGPT — 43% have tried the AI.

Oldest adults, 65-and-up, are least interested in the tech — only 6% have tried the tool, according to Pew.

*AI Smarter Than Many Humans By 2027?: If it feels like we’re all living in a sci-fi movie that’s ready to careen off a cliff into AI oblivion, don’t blame Leopold Aschenbrenner.

His firsthand take on the potential devastation ahead — courtesy of AI — leaves him no choice but to sound the alarm.

A former researcher for OpenAI — maker of ChatGPT — Aschenbrenner warns that AI is moving so fast, we could see AI that’s as smart as an AI engineer by 2027.

Even more head-turning: Once AI is operating at that intellectual level, it’s just another jump or two — perhaps another few years — until we literally have “many millions” of virtual AI entities that have taken over the ever-increasing sophistication of AI, Aschenbrenner says.

Observes Aschenbrenner: “Rather than a few hundred researchers and engineers at a leading AI lab, we’d have more than one hundred thousand times that—(AI agents) furiously working on algorithmic breakthroughs, day and night.

“Before we know it, we would have super-intelligence on our hands — AI systems vastly smarter than humans, capable of novel, creative, complicated behavior we couldn’t even begin to understand.”

In essence, AI will have created its own digital civilization.

And it’s highly feasible that civilization would be populated by “several billions” of super-intelligent AI entities, according to Aschenbrenner.

The stomach-churning problem with that scenario: Given the human greed to possess such vast AI power unilaterally, it’s very likely that the U.S. could find itself in an all-or-nothing race with China to dominate AI.

Even worse: The U.S. could find itself in an all-out war with China to dominate AI.

Granted, it seems that for every in-the-know AI researcher like Aschenbrenner, there’s another equally qualified AI researcher who insists those fears are extremely overblown.

Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta — Facebook’s parent company — for example, believes that such AI gloom-and-doom nightmares are misguided and premature.

Even so, Aschenbrenner has staked his professional reputation on his assertions.

And he’s offered his complete analysis of what could be in a 156-page treatise entitled, “Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead.”

(Gratefully, Aschenbrenner’s tome is rendered in a conversational, engaging and enthusiastic writing style.)

For close followers of AI who are looking to evaluate a definitive perspective on how our world could be completely transformed beyond our imaginations — within the next decade — Aschenbrenner’s treatise is a must-read.

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AI Reduces 60+ Copywriting Team to One Editor

In yet another bone-chilling example of how AI is hollowing-out copywriting teams, this BBC report details how AI turned a 60+ copywriting team into a one-man operation.

First introduced by the publisher in 2023, AI slowly began to usurp more and more jobs until by 2024, everyone on the team was vaporized save for one, lone editor.

Observes the last of the team, who chooses to remain anonymous: “All of a sudden, I was just doing everyone’s job.

“Mostly, it was just about cleaning things up and making the writing sound less awkward, cutting out weirdly formal or over-enthusiastic language.

“It was more editing than I had to do with human writers, but it was always the exact same kinds of edits. The real problem was it was just so repetitive and boring. It started to feel like I was the robot.”

That account is a long way from current-day AI evangelism, which insists AI is little more than a warm-and-fuzzy friend who will always help you — and never hurt.

For editors and writers who are not tasked with unearthing fresh news data in their jobs, the message is clear: Increasingly, staying alive in copyediting has become a fight to be ‘the last one standing.’

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Guide: New AI Writer Challenger: Close Enough to Make ChatGPT Yawn: Reviewer Jayric Maning finds that while that Llama3 AI chatbot is no slouch, it still comes in behind market leader ChatGPT.

Observes Maning: “I would have to say that GPT-4 is the better LLM (AI engine). GPT-4 excels in multimodality, with advanced capabilities in handling text, image, and audio inputs, while Llama 3’s similar features are still in development.

“GPT-4 also offers a much larger context length and better performance and is widely accessible through popular tools and services, making it more user-friendly.”

*ChatGPT’s New Smarts: Maybe Humans Should Stick to Finger-Painting?: While knowledge of ChatGPT’s intellectual prowess is widespread, new metrics indicate the AI writer/tool is smarter than many realize.

Specifically, ChatGPT’s performance on numerous standardized tests — compiled by former researcher OpenAI Leopold Aschenbrenner — leaves most humans hopelessly behind.

Here’s how ChatGPT ranks against humans on some of the most common — and challenging — high school and college exams, according to Aschenbrenner:

~Uniform Bar Exam: Top 10%

~LSAT (Law School Admission Test): Top 12%

~SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test): Top 3%

~GRE (Graduate Record Examination) (Verbal): Top 1%

~GRE (Graduate Record Examination) (Quantitative): Top 20%

~US Biology Olympiad (high school): Top 1%

~AP Chemistry(high school): Top 20%

~AP Macroeconomics (high school): Top 8%

~AP Calculus BC (high school): Top 49%

One caveat: ChatGPT took the above tests in 2023, before it was upgraded to ChatGPT-4o.

So chances are, ChatGPT-4o would score even higher on some or all of these tests above.

*Anthropic’s New Claude 3.5: An Ego-Check for ChatGPT?: In a win for consumers, Anthropic has released an upgrade to its ChatGPT competitor that it claims outperforms ChatGPT.

While the jury is still out, Anthropic claims Claude 3.5:

~Writes in a more natural tone

~Is better at nuance and humor

~Processes complicated prompts more easily

Either way, writers win: Brilliant AI programmers at various AI writing firms remain hell-bent on outdoing each other.

And consequently, the auto-writing tools just keep getting more sophisticated.

*Brand Writing, Steadfastly Consistent: Acrolinx — an editing and writing tool designed to ensure all users write in the same brand voice — has gotten an AI upgrade.

The changes enable users to instantly auto-generate ‘brand-standard’ writing at a pre-set quality level.

It also double-checks any writing auto-generated to ensure it steers clear of plagiarism.

*New WordPress Plug-In: Automated Writing, with a Side of SEO: WordPress users now have another AI writer optimized for scoring high in search engine returns: ‘SEO Basics — AI Writer.’

In addition, the tool also enables the creation of automated posts that can be released on a scheduled basis.

Plus, it can transcribe YouTube videos to written transcriptions and includes social media filters that enable ‘media-rich content that aligns with current trends and topics.’

*Snapshot: Some Top AI Paraphrasing Tools: Business Research Insights has released its list of top AI paraphrasers. Here’s their selection, along with links to pricing pages:

~CoderDuck

~SEO Wagon

~Spin Rewriter

~Quillbot

~Prepost SEO

One caveat: Virtually all AI writers — including ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude — are capable of paraphrasing.

AI tools specializing in paraphrasing are pitched as ideally designed to make AI paraphrasing easier and more powerful.

*ChatGPT: Picking Your Favorite Flavor: Writer Rachel Davies offers an excellent rundown in this piece of the latest versions of ChatGPT and their costs.

The quick takeaway: Besides ChatGPT’s limited free version, ChatGPT Plus is available for $20/month, ChatGPT Team runs $30/month and ChatGPT Enterprise costs $60/month.

*Bad Dog: Adobe Sued by U.S. Over Tough-to-Unsubscribe Tricks: Consumers fooled by tricky, bait-and-switch, ‘easy unsubscribe’ offers will most likely cheer this day in court against Adobe.

The beef: The U.S. alleges that Adobe — provider of a number of AI writing/imaging services — deliberately misled customers about how to cancel its subscriptions.

Observes writer David McCabe: “Adobe took steps to lock consumers into yearly subscriptions billed in monthly increments, the lawsuit argued.

“The overall price of the plan was often displayed in bold when customers signed up.

“But a reference to Adobe’s cancellation fee was displayed in lighter italic text, the government said.

“Consumers had to click a separate link to see details of the early cancellation fee, which cost half of any remaining payments and applied if a customer canceled in the first year, the government said.”

*AI Big Picture: Sad Masquerade: CNN Exposes AI Posing as Human Reporters: Writer Hadas Gold takes an in-depth look in this piece at a growing problem with AI writing: Publishers who mislead readers that AI-generated articles are being written by human beings.

The company in the crosshairs in Gold’s piece: Hoodline.

Observes Peter Adams, a senior vice president of the News Literacy Project: The way the site uses and discloses AI purposely tricks readers by “mimicking” the look and feel of a “standards-based local news organization with real journalists.”

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Good Chance, Says Former OpenAI Researcher

If it feels like we’re all living in a sci-fi movie that’s ready to careen off a cliff into AI oblivion, don’t blame Leopold Aschenbrenner.

His firsthand take on the potential devastation ahead — courtesy of AI — leaves him no choice but to sound the alarm.

A former researcher for OpenAI — maker of ChatGPT — Aschenbrenner warns that AI is moving so fast, we could see AI that’s as smart as an AI engineer by 2027.

Even more head-turning: Once AI is operating at that intellectual level, it’s just another jump or two — perhaps another few years — until we literally have “many millions” of virtual AI entities that have taken over the ever-increasing sophistication of AI, Aschenbrenner says.

Observes Aschenbrenner: “Rather than a few hundred researchers and engineers at a leading AI lab, we’d have more than one hundred thousand times that—furiously working on algorithmic breakthroughs, day and night.

“Before we know it, we would have super-intelligence on our hands — AI systems vastly smarter than humans, capable of novel, creative, complicated behavior we couldn’t even begin to understand.”

In essence, AI will have created its own digital civilization.

And it’s highly feasible that civilization would be populated by “several billions” of super-intelligent AI entities, according to Aschenbrenner.

The stomach-churning problem with that scenario: Given the human greed to possess such vast AI power unilaterally, it’s very likely that the U.S. could find itself in an all-or-nothing race with China to dominate AI.

Even worse: The U.S. could find itself in an all-out war with China to dominate AI.

Granted, it seems that for every in-the-know AI researcher like Aschenbrenner, there’s another equally qualified AI researcher who insists those fears are extremely overblown.

Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta — Facebook’s parent company — for example, believes that such AI gloom-and-doom nightmares are misguided and premature.

Even so, Aschenbrenner has staked his professional reputation on his assertions.

And he’s offered his complete analysis of what could be in a 156-page treatise entitled, “Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead.”

(Gratefully, Aschenbrenner’s tome is rendered in a conversational, engaging and enthusiastic writing style.)

For close followers of AI who are looking to evaluate a definitive perspective on how our world could be completely transformed beyond our imaginations — within the next decade — Aschenbrenner’s treatise is a must-read.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Guide: Blaze AI — The Brand Whisperer You Didn’t Know You Needed?: Writer Ana Gajic takes a deep dive into this AI writer, which features prose rendered in your brand’s voice.

It also has the ability to repurpose a single piece of text into a number of formats including blogs, ads, posts for TikTok, Instagram, similar social media, FAQs and more.

Gajic’s verdict: “Blaze AI is an excellent writing assistant, capable of producing high-quality content that matches your brand’s voice.”

*The Case for a Marketing-Specific AI Writer: With scores of AI writers competing for the attention of marketers, it only makes sense to check-out AI writers specifically designed for marketing needs, according to this Anyword blog post.

Such customized tools often offer you custom prompts for marketers, tools for quickly rendering marketing texts in a wide variety of formats and an ongoing, ever-deepening understanding of your business.

Not surprisingly, Anyword is specifically designed for the kind of automated writing marketers prefer.

So it’s a good benchmark to use while evaluating the myriad selection of marketing AI writers currently available.

*Meet the McDonald’s of AI Writers: Ready to Serve Billions: Add ‘Scott’ to the increasing number of AI writers designed to regurgitate the news and data it finds on the Web into hundreds of blogs on a daily basis.

Often scorned by writers who do original reporting, many believe such auto-writers too often emphasize quantity over quality.

Bottom line: Writers and editors need to keep tools like Scott on their radar — lest their future career prospects vaporize.

*Adobe’s Latest AI Update: Because Writers Need Pretty Pictures Too: Writers looking for supporting images and supporting video will want to check-out Adobe’s update to Adobe Express.

Designed for use by pros and laymen alike, the tool has been reworked so that much of the image and video creation is AI-automated.

With the AI make-over, Adobe is also promising to roll-out a specially designed extension of Express, which will seamlessly integrate into Microsoft Copilot — Microsoft’s answer to ChatGPT.

*Amazon Web Services Gets Its Own AI Ghost-in-the-Machine: Writers and editors working in the Amazon Web Services universe now have access to a new AI auto-writing and AI automation tool.

Dubbed ‘Automation Anywhere,’ the app is designed to create AI assistants that can auto-generate content, summaries, respond to questions and automate other tasks using an enterprise’s data.

Automation Anywhere is specifically designed to work in concert with Amazon Q.

*Virtual AI Coaches — Based on Real People — Come to LinkedIn: If you’ve ever wished you could get career advice — or help with a cover letter — from a career coach like Lisa Gates, you’re in luck.

LinkedIn has just added an AI version of Gates — as well as similar career coaches — to its service, which you can consult to help you on the job, or help you get your next job.

The new AI mentors — along with additional AI tweaks to LinkedIn — “showcase a massive push by LinkedIn to capitalize generative AI,” according to writer Amanda Hoover.

*Siri Gets A Brain Transplant: Writer Joanna Stern offers an in-depth look in this piece at Apple’s decision to fully integrate ChatGPT into its products — and how the move will impact its smartphones, iPads and Mac computers.

The ChatGPT upgrades promised in coming months include:

~An AI writer for auto-generating text and summaries — as well as proofreading

~A much smarter Siri (Apple’s onboard Q&A personality), aided by ChatGPT

~Voice transcription, automated images, automated message summaries and more

*Yahoo’s New AI Email: An Inbox That Can Think for You: In yet another example of the ‘AI Everywhere’ trend, Yahoo is deeply integrating AI into its mail services.

Users can expect:

~AI-generated, one-line summaries of each email you receive

~Auto-generated proposed actions, tasks and/or responses for each email you receive

~Similar automated or semi-automated features for your emails

Observes Kyle Miller, a vice president at Yahoo: “People are craving better ways to streamline the daily activities that often bog us down — like managing multiple email accounts, sorting-out their schedules, reading through long messages and tracking orders.

“The new features we’re launching are aimed at making life that much easier for anyone that relies on email — which of course is practically everyone.”

*New Plan for the Rocket Man: Members of the U.S. Space Force now have their own, in-house AI tool to auto-generate text summaries, get IT assistance and auto-generate computer code.

Currently in experimental form, the tool is being rolled-out to asses how AI can be used to access and manipulate information by U.S. Space Force — and U.S. Air Force — members.

Observes Collen Roller, senior computer scientist, Air Force Research Laboratory: “The area’s changing so rapidly and fast, we have to be able to adapt to these new things that are coming out.

“It’s super important from a (research and development) standpoint that we’re able to adapt to whatever’s coming out so that we can evaluate these things for our specific use cases.”

*AI Big Picture: Dream Machine to Hollywood: AI’s Ready for Its Close-up: While many pros in the video and film-making world await the arrival of Sora — an in-development, AI text-to-video generator from ChatGPT’s maker — increasing numbers of competitors are popping-up with ready-to-go alternatives.

The latest: ‘Dream Machine,’ which is designed to auto-create five-second video clips based on a prompt you type-in.

Here’s a sample clip from Dream Machine: A dog in sunglasses tooling through a neon landscape in his car.

As with many things generative AI, if you’re good with words, chances are, you’ll be good with Dream Machine.

Plus, you’ll most likely be good with other text-to-video tools, too.

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ChatGPT Offers More Features for Free Users

We live in a world where much of the AI we use seems downright magical — and very often, absolutely free.

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has upped-the-ante on that trend, rolling-out a spate of even more new features that can be used for a song.

For writers, that means free access to ‘custom-GPTs’ — or custom versions of ChatGPT designed for specific writing tasks like stylized auto-writing, editing and proofing, SEO-optimization and the like.

Writers will also be able to take advantage of new ChatGPT tools for data analytics and image manipulation.

And they’ll also have access to Memory, a powerful new feature that is especially handy for writers looking to train ChatGPT to closely mimic their personal writing style — or remember all of their personal preferences as users of ChatGPT.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*AI for the Camera Shy: Instantly Create an Avatar Spokesperson: AI video toolmaker Captions has released a new tool that enables video-makers to create instant avatars to serve as spokespeople in short clips.

Dubbed ‘AI Creator,’ the tool also offers users the ability to customize production elements of their videos, such as camera angles, lighting, clothing for the spokesperson and a background.

Observes Gaurav Misra, CEO, Captions: “Not everyone who wants to create content also wants to be on camera. “Since our mission has always been to empower anyone to effectively communicate their stories through video, launching AI Creator feels like the natural next step.

“Now, not only can users record and edit their talking videos with Captions. (They can now) generate a talking video entirely on Captions as well.”

*Need Workshops, Seminars, Polls and More?: Just Add Text and Stir: Mentimeter has released a new AI tool that auto-creates workshops, quizzes, seminars, polls and similar content from a text prompt.

The tool works by analyzing an input prompt and crafting a ‘purpose-built presentation — following Mentimeter’s knowledge base of best practices for facilitating meetings and classes.’

Observes Niklas Ingvar, co-founder, Mentimeter: “Our customers highlight that they often lack sufficient time to level-up traditional one-way presentations into sessions that encourage active participation.

“This new capability not only saves time, but also assists users to focus on delivering impactful content and engaging their audience effectively.”

*Extra! Extra!: AI Coming to 100+ More Newsrooms: Add another 100+ news publishers to the list of news outlets that are going all in on AI.

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has announced that it’s working with WAN-IFRA — the World Association of News Publishers — to further promulgate AI in news.

Observes Tom Ruben, a media exec at OpenAI: “This program is designed to turbo-charge the capabilities of 128 newsrooms across Europe, Asia and Latin America.”

*Canva Looking to Eat Microsoft’s and Google’s Lunch: Consumers now have an alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.

Dubbed Canva Enterprise, the productivity platform is shot-through with AI and designed to simplify work.

Observes Melanie Perkins, CEO, Canva: “In this next chapter, we’ll take the three fragmented ecosystems that organizations face—the design needs of each professional industry, the AI creation and editing tools and all the workflow products—bringing it all into one single platform.”

*James Bond, Meet AI: Spy Reports Now Shaken, Not Stirred — and Algorithmically Generated: Impressed by early gains in their use of AI to find patterns in spy-collected data, U.S. intelligence agencies are “scrambling to embrace the AI revolution,” according to writer Frank Bajak.

One example, according to Bajak: “Thousands of analysts across the 18 U.S. intelligence agencies now use a CIA-developed GenAI called Osiris.

“It runs on unclassified and publicly or commercially available data — what’s known as open-source. It writes annotated summaries and its chatbot function lets analysts go deeper with queries.”

*Flesh-Bags One, AI-Automated News Site, Zero: In a victory for mere humans, an AI news aggregator that apparently regurgitated stories from legitimate journalists — after quick, AI re-writes — has gone dormant.

The reason: Lack of oversight by human beings resulted in error-ridden content that in at least one case, severely damaged the reputation of a respected Irish talk-show host.

Observes lead writer Kashmir Hill: “Even though AI-generated stories are often poorly constructed, they can still outrank their source material on search engines and social platforms, which often use AI to help position content.

“The artificially elevated stories can then divert advertising spending — which is increasingly assigned by automated auctions without human oversight.”

*AI Inside: Google’s Chromebook Gets a Makeover: Fans of Chromebook and AI may cotton to a slew of AI features Google is integrating into the latest Chromebook.

Observes writer Nathan Ingraham: “Chromebook Plus models are getting a host of features that Google first teased last year as well as some new ones we haven’t heard about before.”

One of the handiest features for scribes is an AI-automated writer.

Observes Ingraham: “The ‘help me write’ feature Google soft-launched earlier this year is now available on all Chromebook Plus laptops.

“This should work across any text entry field you find on a Web site — whether that’s a Google product like Gmail or a site like Facebook.

“You can use it to get a prompt, or have it analyze what you’ve already written to make it more formal, or more funny.

“Basically it’s a generative text tool that you can use across the Web.”

*AI-Powered Legal Tools: Now All in One Place: Lawyers looking for the lowdown on the full spectrum of AI tools available to them now have a directory to call their own.

Offered by Artificial Lawyer and Theorem, the directory enables buyers to evaluate “a wide range of leading solutions, leverage an RFP Builder to help you match the best legal tech products with your projects, and you can take part in Theorem’s Legal Tech Stack Community to learn more about what tools the market is using.

“The goal is to improve the procurement process for finding the right legal tech tools for you.”

*AI Big Picture: Bringing New Meaning To, ‘A License to Print Money:’ AI Company Joins the $3 Trillion Club: You know you’re doing well as an AI company when you become one of only three businesses on the planet valued at $3 trillion.

AI chipmaker Nvidia did just that earlier this month — a company in the right place at the right time that arguably manufacturers the world’s most coveted and extremely powerful chips for AI applications.

For the record, Nvidia is the number two most valuable company on Earth — just behind Microsoft and a step ahead of Apple.

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It’s official: One of the world’s richest and mightiest tech companies has turned to ChatGPT to bring AI to its smartphone.

A major coup for ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI, the deal will bring ChatGPT to millions of iPhone users who are running — or will be running — iOS 18 software on their devices.

The Times of India also reports that Apple may feature ChatGPT competitors on its iPhone as well — such as Google Gemini.

But so far, no such deals have been inked.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Guide: Brainy Bot Smackdown: ChatGPT-4o Versus Google Gemini 1.5 Pro: Writer Lisa Lacy has put together a helpful rundown pitting the new ChatGPT-4o against one of its closest competitors, the new Google Gemini 1.5 Pro.

The verdict: It’s a lot like choosing between Coke and Pepsi: They’re very similar, but you’ll probably have a preference after you consider the differences.

Observes Lacy: “GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro are both advanced language models (AI engines), designed according to their makers’ specifications to understand the text prompts you give them and to generate text responses that seem like they were written by a human.

“But ChatGPT’s responses won’t be exactly like Gemini’s.”

*Hold My Algorithm: ChatGPT Snags 100K New Subscriptions in an Eye-Blink: Not Bad for a Day’s Work: From the Department of We-Can-Do-No-Wrong: ChatGPT just sold 100,000 new subscriptions in a single day.

Writer Ingrid Lunden reports PwC — a management consulting juggernaut — purchased the subscriptions for its worldwide workforce.

Plus, PwC also becomes a reseller of ChatGPT to other businesses with the deal.

*AI Muse on Tap: At World’s Biggest Agency, Creativity Served-Up with a Side of Bytes: WPP has decided to embrace a ChatGPT competitor — ‘Claude’ — as its preferred AI chatbot.

With the deal, about 114,000 WPP employees worldwide get access to Claude and will be using the tool for analysis, content creation and similar marketing tasks.

Observes writer Peter Adams: “The deal underscores the growing embrace of generative AI among agencies that see the technology as an enabler of productivity and crucial to gaining a competitive edge.”

*AI News Snackables: Newspaper Publisher’s Solution for the Summary Obsessed: Gannett — publisher of USA Today and hundreds of other newspapers worldwide — is experimenting with a new format that features AI news summaries atop the articles it publishes.

Observes writer Mia Sato: “Journalists participating in the pilot program will use AI to produce bulleted ‘key points’ of their story.

“The summaries appear to already be live on some USA Today stories online.”

*Pink Slip Heaven: Scores of Jobs Go Bye-Bye as Marketing Department Embraces AI: Remember that cheerful AI assistant and ‘collaborator’ that was going to free-up your days so you could indulge in much more meaningful work?

It just took your job.

Writer Megan Graham reports that $10 million worth of marketing work that would have gone to content creators for a Swedish financial company is now handled by AI.

Observes Graham: “Using generative AI tools such as Midjourney and DALL-E saved the company $1.5 million on image production costs in the first quarter — while slashing its image development timeline to seven days from six weeks.

“Klarna also said it had decreased by 25% its spending on external marketing suppliers (code-phrase for editors, writers and graphic artists) for tasks such as social media, translation and production.”

*ChatGPT to Stock Market Analysts: Leave the Cherry Picking to Me: People who pick stocks and bonds for a living are the latest professional demographic squirming over the AI automation of their services.

Observes writer Kevin Okemwa: “A new research study shows OpenAI’s GPT-4 model is better at predicting future earning trends than professional financial analysts or state-of-the-art AI models trained to handle such tasks.

“The study attributes GPT-4’s performance to its economic reasoning capabilities and an in-depth analysis of economic trends and ratios.”

*Oops, I Did It Again: Another Google AI Foray Runs Amok: Google can’t get a break.

After winding up with egg-on-its-face after early versions of its AI image generator falsely portrayed a Nazi soldier as an Asian woman, Google is having trouble with its new search product.

Dubbed ‘AI Overviews,’ the new component to Google search is supposed to provide AI summaries atop the search results it brings back for users.

The only problem: AI Overviews got off to a bumpy start by cheerfully recommending glue as a key ingredient of pizza-making — and following up with an advisory that you eat rocks for good health.

Adds writer Nico Grant: “People also shared examples of Google’s telling users in bold font to clean their washing machines using ‘chlorine bleach and white vinegar,’ a mixture that when combined can create harmful chlorine gas.”

*Coming Soon to Smartphones: New AI Superpowers: A number of popular smartphone makers are jostling to put AI hardware in the palm of your hand.

Observes writer Michael Grothaus: “By the latter half of this year, it’s likely that we’ll begin to encounter phones being marketed as GenAI smartphones or simply GenAI phones.”

The only catch: While phones integrated with AI hardware will allow you to perform AI functions in your hand — bypassing the need to go to the cloud for that kind of magic — the AI you’ll be using will most likely be not as good.

The reason: AI in the cloud is processed by the power of a supercomputer, which — so far — cannot be shrunk down to a palm-sized device.

*AI Big Picture: No Joke: Your Next CEO Really Could Be An AI Overlord: Looks like the same people who are replacing thousands of workers with AI may be the next to find their heads on the chopping block.

Writer David Streitfeld reports that CEOs could be on their way to becoming an endangered species, given that AI is so good at a CEO’s core purpose — making difficult decisions.

Observes Streitfeld: “The chief executive is increasingly imperiled by AI, just like the writer of news releases and the customer service representative.

“This is not just a prediction. A few successful companies have begun to publicly experiment with the notion of an AI leader — even if at the moment it might largely be a branding exercise.”

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