Biding Its Time: AI Soon Overlord of All Media?


In this wide-ranging article, RedShark makes the case for a world in which all media is dominated, guided and produced by AI.

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New breakthroughs in AI-generated writing alone do lend credence to the proposition.

“Sunspring,” a short film screened at a recent Sundance film festival, for example, used a script generated by a computer.

Saatchi & Saatchi presented a pop promo at a recent Cannes Lions festival scripted – and directed – by AI.

And Canadian data-analysis company Greenlight Essentials launched a campaign on Kickstarter to fund what it describes as the first feature film co-written by AI.

“AI used to be relegated to only the fastest supercomputers,” says Paul Turner, vice president, Enterprise Product Management, Telestream. “But recent advances in software and the use of GPUs to process the algorithms mean that the cost of AI assistance is no longer a barrier to entry.”

In other AI-generated writing news:

*French Firm Publishes 150,000+ AI-Generated Articles: AI solutions provider Demain.ai has published more than 150,000 articles using AI-generated writing during the past 12 months, according to Olivier Mégean, the company’s president.

Demain.ai uses AI writing software from Arria NLG to auto-produce news stories.

“Today’s reality is that media must produce massive volumes of high-quality coverage with no additional staff — and lower budgets than they once had,” Mégean says.

*Google Funds AI-Generated Writing at Arab Publisher: Al Bawaba Group’s “Disco Content Marketplace” has snared a grant from the Google News Initiative Challenge Fund to help support auto-writing of its content.

“Disco offers its users access to 6,500+ licensed content products and sources, along with multiple buying and licensing models to suit users’ needs, plus seamless API integrations,” says Mark Gatty Saunt, director, content sales & licensing, Disco.

“The platform is already attracting a diverse array of clients from within the Middle East and elsewhere around the world,” Saunt adds.

Google’s funding will also be used to enhance semantic search and filtration at Disco.

*Major News Publisher Rolls-Out AI Text-to-Voice Service: Stories generated by 30 McClatchy newsrooms across the country will soon be available in voice format, according to Jessica Gilbert.

She’s senior director, product and experience, at news publisher McClatchy.

The news outlet says visitors at its participating digital news sites will be able to convert a text story to a voice story– simply by clicking a ‘play’ button under every headline.

Conversion will be virtually instantaneous, according to McClatchy.

“At a time when consumption of digital audio is stronger than ever, we’re excited to roll-out this new audio feature,” Gilbert says.

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