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

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

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

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

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

~keyword generation

~Web traffic analysis

~link building

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

~one-click WordPress publishing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

~Report X

~Real Fast Reports

~Paperpal

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

ICT offers snapshot reviews of four of those:

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

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

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

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

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

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–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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05.08.2024

Shout Out

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

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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29.07.2024

Dumber, Cheaper

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

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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22.07.2024

Won’t Get Fooled Again

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

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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12.07.2024

Sticky Fingers

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

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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08.07.2024

Free AI-Powered Proofreading

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

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:

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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01.07.2024

The Myth of the ‘Cheery, AI Collaborator’

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

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.

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.

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:

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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17.06.2024

AI Smarter Than Many Humans by 2027?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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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10.06.2024

The Goodies Keep Coming

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

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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03.06.2024

Apple Goes All In on ChatGPT

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

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.”

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.

*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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27.05.2024

Busy Beaver

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

The Top 100 (Mostly AI-Powered) Changes Promised by Google

While Google has been throwing a blizzard-of-bucks at AI for a while now, it can be tough for writers to distill how all that green will make their lives easier.

This piece on Google’s blog has all the answers.

It cuts through all the noise and hype and offers a succinct, just-the-facts-ma’am rundown on all the upgrades (mostly AI-driven) Google is promising to roll-out in coming months.

Stop here for details and links on:

*Significant improvements to ChatGPT competitor Gemini

*The upgrade to Imagen 3 — a text-to-art generator great for making supporting images

*Tools for customizing Gemini for specialized writing and other tasks

*Much more

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Guide: Top AI Writers for Marketers: Save Your Job, Impress Your Boss, Thank The Robots: While market overviews of top AI writers are popping-up on the Web with increasing regularity, this is a really good one.

The reason: Writer Dan Atkins offers an extremely well-written, fast-paced look at his picks for best AI marketing tools.

And he gets very specific about the kinds of content each tool can generate, such as marketing emails, interview questions, Web site content and the like.

Bottom line: If you’re looking to get quickly up-to-speed on what AI auto-writers can do for you, this is a great overview piece.

*Google’s Beefed-Up Gemini – Now Handling More Data Than Your Brain: Writers looking to stay current on competitors to ChatGPT will want to give Google’s newly upgraded chatbot — Gemini 1.5 Pro — a test drive.

The biggest change to Gemini 1.5 Pro is a greatly expanded ‘context window’ — or the amount of data a user can work with in Gemini’s chat interface at one time.

Observes Sissie Hsiao, a vice president at Google: This means Gemini Advanced can make sense of multiple large documents — up to 1,500-pages total, summarize 100 emails or handle similarly sized, data-intensive tasks.

*Microsoft’s New AI-Powered PCs: The Cure for MacBook Envy?: The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern is jazzed about a new line of PCs from Microsoft that are AI-powered.

Observes Stern: “I tried these new Copilot+ PCs. They’ve got improved performance, battery life and enhanced AI features.

“Finally! Microsoft is promising some real competition to Apple’s M-powered MacBooks.”

One caveat: Despite their prowess, AI-powered PCs — which process AI functions locally on your device rather than in the cloud — will always be somewhat less advanced than AI you can find on the Web.

The reason: No matter how optimized AI is for use on a PC, it cannot — generally speaking — compete with cloud-based AI, which runs on a supercomputer.

At least, that is, for the moment.

*New Text-to-Video From Google: Another Hollywood Panic Attack?: Looking to steal a bit of thunder from Sora — an in-development, text-to-video tool that has Hollywood in a tizzy over potential job loss — Google is prepping release of a Sora competitor.

Dubbed Veo, the in-development video-maker can auto-generate 1080p-resolution video clips from text that run about 60 seconds.

Observes writer Kyle Wiggers: “Veo appears to be competitive with today’s leading video generation models — not only Sora, but models from startups like Pika, Runway and Irreverent Labs.”

*Making Sense of Cents, the AI Way: In the spirit of ‘AI Everywhere’ — a trend triggered by the widespread success of ChatGPT — a new AI tool has been released that offers instant financial advice to businesses.

Dubbed ‘Accountant AI,’ the tool integrates your business’ financial data with industry news and insights to offer personalized advice and insights for your next financial move.

Observes Lilac Bar David, CEO, Lili: “Accountant AI will revolutionize the way business owners interact with their financial data by providing them with quick and more affordable answers to all of their accounting and financial questions.

“For business owners who cannot afford an accountant or more expensive accounting tools, Accountant AI is a game-changer.”

*The New AI Customer Service Chatbots: The End of Fear and Loathing?: The day when customer-service chatbots won’t leave frustrated customers screaming, “Bring me the knives for my eyes,” may have arrived.

Dataiku is one a number of firms offering software that enables businesses to create customer service — and other Q&A chatbots — that operate with the full force and versatility of AI.

In a phrase: “The result is many secure, governed and scalable conversational AI chatbots,” according to Sophie Dionnet, a vice president at Dataiku.

Those chatbots can contextualize information and produce relevant and reliable answers to an organization’s unique set of questions, Dionnet adds.

*Oh Goodie: With AI, Now Everyone Can Be A Lawyer: AI pioneer My Pocket Lawyer reports that 20,000+ people are using its legal advice tool — many of them everyday consumers.

Observes Charlie Hernandez, CEO, My Pocket Lawyer: “My Pocket Lawyer’s technological strides are not just about innovation: They represent a leap toward bridging the justice gap for countless individuals and small businesses.”

*Prompt Challenged?: Claude’s Got Your Back: Writers foraging around for ‘just the right’ prompt to wrestle what they want from AI may want to check-out a new prompting tool from Anthropic.

Makers of Claude — a direct competitor to ChatGPT, Gemini and the like — Anthropic developed the tool to take the guesswork out of working with its AI chatbot.

Observes lead writer Asif Razzaq: Anthropic’s new prompting tool “is an exciting development that will help many users and beginners generate production-ready prompts in the Anthropic Console — saving time and ensuring high-quality results.”

*AI Big Picture: The Year Ahead for AI: Investor’s Business Daily takes an insightful look at what to expect from AI in the coming year in this piece — noting that major tech companies have placed huge bets on AI succeeding both long-and-short-term.

Observes writer Eric Savitz: “To me, this feels a little like the early days of the Internet or the early days of cloud computing or the early days of smartphones.

“If you made a conscious decision not to participate in this market as a technology company, you’re making a very contrarian bet that the rest of the world is wrong. I don’t see anybody doing that.”

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20.05.2024

Our Little Secret

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

ChatGPT Can Now Talk With Itself — At Length

In a startling new video, ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI showcased how two smartphones running its latest AI engine can observe the world together, think about the world together and talk about the world together.

OpenAI pulled-off the demo by creating a female ChatGPT personality on one smartphone and a male personality on a second smartphone.

Both were encouraged to have a conversation about a room that the male personality could see by viewing the room through its smartphone camera.

The resulting conversation was innocent enough: The two ChatGPT personalities talked playfully about what the room looked like — and what the human in the room looked like.

And the video closed-out playfully enough as the two ChatGPT personalities sang a song together — after which the human in the room ended their interaction by ‘turning-off’ their conversation.

But one wonders what might have happened if the human had vacated the room and left the two ChatGPT personalities alone and to their own devices — free to converse privately with each other for as long as they preferred.

There’s probably a good chance that the conversation would have simply dead-ended after the two ChatGPT personalities exhausted everything they had to say about what could be seen in the room.

But there’s also probably a chance that the interaction between the two AI personalities may have continued on as ‘conversations’ on ChatGPT often do: Skipping from one idea to another, veering off in unexpected directions — and sometimes, disappearing down a rabbit hole.

Given ChatGPT’s reputation for regularly hallucinating and making-up facts to ‘keep-the-conversation-going,’ the second alternative seems very possible.

Which begs the question: If two ChatGPT personalities operating on the new ChatGPT-4o — and plugged into a wall outlet that nurtures them with unlimited electricity — are left to talk with one another indefinitely, what, exactly, might they come up with after hours, days — or even months — of conversing and hallucinating together.

One hopes, something kind.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Guide: AI Smackdown — ChatGPT-4o Plus Versus MS Copilot Pro: With AI’s development moving so fast, writer Lance Whitney decided to pit the newly upgraded ChatGPT against competitor MS Copilot Pro.

The upshot: Microsoft users looking to use AI within the Microsoft software suite — and prizing convenience — may want to opt for MS Copilot Pro.

But if you’re looking for access to the very latest and most sophisticated AI engine offered by ChatGPT — GPT-4o — you’ll want to choose ChatGPT.

*ChatGPT’s Key New Benefits for Writers: Smarter, Faster, Cheaper: Scribes can look forward to faster response times and enhanced reasoning with the latest upgrade to ChatGPT’s AI engine, according to its maker OpenAI.

Dubbed GPT-4o, the upgrade also increases the number of prompts-per-hour writers can enter into ChatGPT.

Specifically, ChatGPT Plus users can now:
~Enter 80 prompts into ChatGPT-4o every three hours
~Enter 40 prompts into ChatGPT-4 every three hours

Plus, the new upgrade — according to OpenAI — also:
~Enables you to see video on your smartphone and talk about it with you
~Enables ChatGPT to interpret, analyze and react to voice, video and text in real-time
~Offers non-paying users of ChatGPT limited access to the latest upgrade

Best Bet: For a complete rundown on the key changes ChatGPT-4o has to offer, check-out OpenAI’s extremely slick, extremely informative 26-minute video on the upgrade.

OpenAI is promising to start rolling-out ChatGPT’s new features during the next few weeks.

*Scarlett Johansson Who? ChatGPT-4o is the New, Sexy, AI Voice on the Block: One of the primary new features of ChatGPT-4o is its ability to interact with you as a kind of Siri-on-Steroids.

Demonstrated in OpenAI’s roll-out video on the upgrade, ChatGPT interacted with users as a young, sexy, intelligent woman who could:

~Respond to basic questions, voice-to-voice
~Look at video on your smartphone and comment on it
~Look at video on your smartphone of a math problem and
work with that math problem
~Look at video on your smartphone and identify your basic
emotional state
~Essentially interact with you — in a rudimentary way — like
the AI character in the movie “Her,” played by Scarlett
Johansson

Long-term, ChatGPT’s voice-to-voice upgrade could come in handy for writers interested in asking ChatGPT a few questions via voice while they’re putting a piece together.

*ChatGPT Now Has a Desktop App — Because Opening a Browser Was Just Too Hard: ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI is also promising to roll-out a new desktop app designed to make interaction with the AI much more convenient.

Availability of the new app is promised for Apple Mac devices first — with a Windows version to follow.

Key conveniences for writers offered with the new desktop app include:

~Instant prompt access to ChatGPT with a keyboard shortcut from the desktop

~Easy switching between ChatGPT’s three AI engines: GPT-3.5, GPT-4 and GPT-4o from the desktop

~Voice interaction with ChatGPT from the desktop

*Is That a Universal Translator in Your Pocket — Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?: In the latest episode of ‘Sci-Fi Becomes Real,’ a new feature rolling-out for ChatGPT enables two people speaking different languages to understand one another in real-time.

You can check-out how the feature performs under ideal conditions in OpenAI’s new, 26-minute demo video of its ChatGPT-4o upgrade.

The video depicts a young man who speaks English — who is conversing with a young woman who speaks Italian.

Between them is a smartphone running ChatGPT-4o, which voices a translation of English-to-Italian for the woman and Italian-to-English for the man — in real-time.

Fans of sci-fi first saw the concept of a ‘Univeral Translator’ introduced to the popular culture back in the 60s when Star Trek — the original series — first aired.

And many will probably be more-than-a-bit charmed to learn that such tech is now available on their smartphone.

*Choice Hacks for Better ChatGPT Prompts: New research has come up with some novel tactics to trigger ChatGPT and similar AI engines to deliver what you’re looking for.

Besides encouraging the chatbot to act like a specific kind of expert, writer Bart Ziegler recommends:

~Encouraging the chatbot to do better

~Asking the chatbot to suggest its own prompts to secure what you’re seeking

~Asking questions as if you’re a specific kind of user, such as a ‘skeptical patient’

~Being genial

~Encouraging the chatbot to be methodical

Bottom line: This piece is a great resource for anyone looking for helpful details on how to pull-off the tactics above.

*Won’t Get Fooled Again?: Add Hoodline, an AI-generated news site covering San Francisco, to the growing list of publishers who have attributed articles to ‘fake writers’ — complete with fake photos and fake bios.

Observes writer Ellen Huet: “Nina Singh-Hudson’s name sits atop a lot of articles on Hoodline, a local news site covering San Francisco.

“Until recently, there was also a smiling headshot and a bio that said Singh-Hudson was a ‘long-time writer and a Bay Area native’ who writes about ‘tantalizing tech & bustling business.’

“This isn’t true. The name is a fake one slapped atop stories generated with artificial intelligence — as are the names of her apparent colleagues at Hoodline SF: Tony Ng, Leticia Ruiz, Eileen Vargas and Eric Tanaka.”

*Google’s New ‘Summary Responses’: Click Apocalypse for Publishers?: More than a few news publishers are squirming at the news that Google is rolling-out a new feature that will sometimes offer a short, written summary in response to search engine queries — followed by the traditional blue links to click on.

The publishers fear that many Google users may be satisfied with the written summary of traditional blue search links — and bypass clicking on one or more of those links for more detail.

A fan querying, “How was Taylor Swift’s show in Austin last night,” for example, might be satisfied with a quick, written summary from Google — as opposed to clicking-through to read the full article or articles used to distill that summary.

*AI Big Picture: Guaranteed to Warm the Cockles of Your Circuit Boards: After four years of college, graduating seniors were treated to a ‘go-get-’em’ commencement speech by an unusual presenter: A robot gussied-up in the college’s official hoodie sweatshirt and a cute, blue dress.

Not everyone was impressed.

Explains Lorrie Clemo, president, D’Youville University — the institution where the AI commencement speaker made its debut: “We wanted to showcase how important technology is, and the potential for technology to really enrich the human experience.”

Counters a student petition: “As the class of 2024 reaches their commencement, we are reminded of the virtual graduations we attended at the end of our high school careers.

“The connection to AI in this scenario feels similarly impersonal. This is shameful to the 2020 graduates receiving their diplomas, as they feel they are having another important ceremony taken away.”

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13.05.2024

Virtual Spokespeople Get Real

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

Ukraine’s New Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman is a ‘Digital Person’

While a number of news media outlets have been using digital news avatars for a number of years, Ukraine became the first country to designate a ‘digital personality’ as an official spokesperson.

Dubbed ‘Victoria,’ the cyber persona has been entrusted to make official government statements for Ukraine’s foreign ministry.

Interestingly, while AI is used to render and animate Victoria’s image, her statements will be written — and pre-verified — by humans employed by Ukraine’s foreign ministry press service.

Victoria’s credibility will also be enhanced by an anti-fraud QR code, which will lead to the text version of what Victoria is saying on the foreign ministry’s Web site.

Bottom line: This is a big deal, given that a major country
on the world’s political stage is entrusting a synthetic personality to often make life-and-death statements impacting humans.

In a phrase, world leaders, Ukrainian soldiers ducking mortar shells on the battlefield — and screaming school children huddling in subways as bombs drop from above — will need to trust their lives to what Victoria says.

*In-Depth Guide: Unleashing Your Inner Ventriloquist: Best AI Voice Tools Ranked: Writers looking to parlay their work into podcasts, videos, slideshow voice-overs and the like will want to check-out this guide to the best in text-to-voice tools.

The verdict from writer Alice Martin: The best AI voice generators use advanced AI that produce voices that sound incredibly human.

They can also use “a variety of presets — or even clone your own voice — making AI voices popular for projects such as virtual assistants, video games, professional voice-overs and social media content,” Martin adds.

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.

*Elon Musk Serves-Up AI Cliff Notes for X Users: Social network X — formerly Twitter — now features news summaries generated by AI, dubbed ‘Stories on X.’

Observes writer Karissa Bell: “X is using Grok (a ChatGPT competitor) to publish AI-generated summaries of news and other topics that trend on the platform.

“According to X, Grok relies on users’ posts to generate the text snippets.

“Some seem to be more news-focused — while others are summaries of conversations happening on the platform itself.”

Both X and Grok are owned by Elon Musk.

*University of Texas to Grammarly: Be Our Guest: Add UT to the list of universities that have decided to give AI a full bear hug.

Specifically, the institution is now working with AI writing assistant Grammarly to find ways to integrate AI into higher education.

Observes Art Markman, vice provost, academic affairs: “We are in an era with a lot of uncertainty surrounding AI and education.

“This is a chance to demonstrate how to use generative AI as a positive source for education, teach responsibility to our students and engage an industry leader to improve our understanding of classroom AI.”

*Say Goodbye to Snoozeworthy: Facebook Parent Promises New AI Ad Tool: Meta is promising a new AI tool that will enable advertisers to auto-generate images and copy for their products and services.

Observes writer Kimberley Kao: “The new features will eventually allow its (Meta’s) 10 million advertisers to upload images of their products to generate new versions of the images and accompanying text for marketing purposes.”

Digital properties owned by Meta featuring advertising include Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Reels and Threads.

*A Look Into the Belly of the Beast: AI and the Smearing of Sports Illustrated: Futurism takes a long, hard look at Advon in this piece — the AI content writing firm that tried to pass-off fake descriptions of journalists as human writers for Sports Illustrated.

Observes writer Maggie Harrison Dupre: “The response was explosive: The magazine’s union wrote that it was ‘horrified,’ while its publisher cut ties with AdVon and subsequently fired its CEO before losing the rights to Sports Illustrated entirely.”

Turns-out that even after the Sports Illustrated debacle, Advon is still at it, striking “deals with publishers in which it provides huge numbers of low-quality product reviews — often for surprisingly prominent publications,” Dupre adds.

*Second Fiddle: Microsoft Building AI Engine ‘Nearly as Good’ as ChatGPT: Tech titan Microsoft is promising to roll-out an AI engine soon that will be nearly as good as ChatGPT, Google Gemini and similar competitors.

Observes Reuters: “The exact purpose of the model has not been determined yet and will depend on how well it performs.

“Microsoft could preview the new model as soon as its Build developer conference later this month.”

*New Study: The Promise and Perils of AI and Journalism: A new report from Northwestern University finds that AI-generated content could spell the end of many writing jobs.

Observes writer Mark Caro: “Many people who practice or care about journalism fear that generative AI — with its ability to create content with little human involvement — could be the final nail in the local news coffin.

“Given how some chain owners have prioritized cost-cutting and profit-making over sustained journalistic quality, what is to stop them from replacing more reporters and editors with robots?

“Can news consumers be relied upon to discern between human-reported journalism and machine-generated content—and does it matter?”

Unfortunately, for many writers and journalists, that question has already been answered.

*AI Big Picture: Randy Travis Gets His Voice Back — With a Little Help from AI: World-famous country singer Randy Travis — who lost his voice to a stroke in 2013 — has a new single out.

Entitled, “Where That Came From,” the new song was put together by AI, which sampled recordings of Travis’ songs to create the all-AI production.

Observes writer Wes Davis: “Travis’ song is a good, edge-case example of AI being used to make music that actually feels legitimate.

“But on the other hand, it also may open a new path for Warner, which owns the rights to vast catalogs of music from famous, dead artists that are ripe for digital resurrection and — if they want to go there — potential profit.

“As heartwarming as this story is, it makes me wonder what lessons Warner Music Nashville — and the record industry as a whole — will take away from this song.”

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