Top Ten Stories in AI Writing: Q2, 2020

Highly creative writers are probably safe from AI’s automation of writing, according to some industry experts evaluating the tech in Q2, 2020.

It’s a perception championed by word-lovers like Nick Montfort, a poet who insists machines simply cannot compete with the likes of Yeats, Homer and Dickinson.

Simultaneously, AI-generated writing is beginning to experience real push-back from its human competitors — including 56% of marketers in a recent poll, who chastised AI writing as a creativity gremlin and job killer.

But despite the headwinds, AI-generated writing overall continues to press inexorably forward.

Francesco Marconi, a longtime player in AI-generated news, for example, advises writers that AI will be changing the very nature of newsroom jobs – and that writers who adapt have the best chance of remaining employed.

And highly respected market research firm Gartner predicts that the production of 30% of all digital content will be at least partially automated within the next two years.

Stefan Åberg, a managing editor at Swedish news publisher, says he’s building an army of robot writers to auto-produce basic news.

And tech wizard billionaire Marc Cuban recently became a major investor in yet another publisher focused on AI-generated sports news coverage.

Meanwhile, AI solutions provider Demain.ai announced in Q2 it soared past publication of 150,000 articles during the previous 12 months.

Granted, AI-generated writing is making good on its promises to find creative ways to cover news stories everyday journalists don’t cover.

Researchers at Cal Poly and University of Miami, for example, are developing an artificial intelligence system to write news stories from data buried in the Web-accessible databases of state and local governments.

But even so, news outlet RedShark wonders aloud if the only conceivable outcome of full implementation of AI-generated writing is a world in which all media is dominated, guided and produced by AI.

Here are the details on Q2’s trend milestones:

*AI Job Loss: Highly Creative Writers Are Probably Safe: Writing demanding significant creativity is probably safe from AI job loss, according to Bryon Reese, CEO, GigaOm, a technology research company.

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“It will be hard — if not impossible — for computers to be able to do jobs that require creativity or abstract thinking, because we don’t really even understand how humans do these things,” Reese says.

“Possible jobs include author, logo designer, composer, copywriter, brand strategist, and management consultant,” Reese says.

Perhaps.

But company’s like Persado are replacing copywriters at ad slogan writing – once considered a highly creative skill.

And United Robots , a leading AI-generated writing company, has added automated interviewing to its...