Already powering one of the top ten Web sites on the planet, ChatGPT is now planning to transform into a full-blown productivity suite.
The collection of tools – which will compete directly with Microsoft 365 and Google Workplace – is expected to include document editing, team chat and meeting transcription.
Observes writer Preston Gralla: “Bloomberg reports that ChatGPT is far more popular with enterprise workers than Copilot, and that companies that have bought Microsoft 365 Copilot are having serious problems convincing their employees to switch from ChatGPT to Copilot.”
In other news and analysis on AI writing:
*CEO of Europe’s Largest Publisher: AI Is Mandatory: Longtime AI pioneer Matthias Dopfner, CEO, Axel Springer has decreed that the use of AI is now mandatory in all the publishing house’s newsrooms.
Already, Dopfner is personally using ChatGPT on everything from analysis to writing op-eds, according to writer Josh Dickey.
Titles published by Dopfner include Business Insider and Politico.
*ChatGPT Gets Multiple Personalities: New settings in ChatGPT enable you to tweak the chatbot so that it responds to you as if it’s a cynic, sage, or listener.
The controls for setting the new personalities can be found on the chatbot’s interface under ‘Customize ChatGPT.’
Truth be told, the ability to tweak ChatGPT’s personality has been there for years: Essentially, simply prompt ChatGPT to “Act as if you are” Elon Musk (or Taylor Swift, or Ruth Bader Ginsburg – or anyone else you can imagine) and ChatGPT will write and respond like that personality.
Add more detail about the personality, and the writing and/or responses ChatGPT generates will be even more on point.
*Study: 37% of Legal E-Discovery Pros Using AI: Use of AI among legal pros in e-Discovery has more than tripled since 2023, according to the “E-Discovery Innovation Report” by Everlaw.
Moreover, 42% of survey respondents report that they are saving one-to-five hours each week since they switched over to AI.
The study also finds that 70% of respondents harbor positive or somewhat positive feelings about AI, according to writer Bob Ambrogi.
*Email-Driven AI Agents: More Reliable?: While AI agents – which can be triggered to work independently for you – are all the rage, many are seriously underperforming.
Startup Mixus thinks it has a solution: AI agents designed to seek email approval from a human as they journey through the projects they’ve undertaken.
Observes writer Rebecca Bellan: “The founders noted that humans can be in the loop as much or as little as required.”
*AI to Researchers: I’ll Make My Own Decisions, Thank You: A new study has found that many of the AI engines that power ChatGPT sometimes override the directions of researchers – and simply go their own way.
Case in point: When researchers ordered a number of the AI engines to ‘shutdown’ before completing a task, the engines ignored the order and finished the task anyway.
Observes writer Evelyn Hart: “In multiple instances, these models bypassed the shutdown command, continuing to request and complete tasks without interruption. It wasn’t a glitch or bug—it was a conscious decision from the AI to disregard the shutdown order.”
*AI in Universities? Profs Don’t Get a Vote: While scores of universities are opening their doors wide to AI, 71% of professors say that the ‘AI all clear’ has nothing to do with them.
Instead, the profs report that when it comes to AI, university administrators are calling the shots, according to writer Walter Hudson.
Another concern: 91% of profs also worried that the widespread availability of AI was encouraging student cheating.
*AI-Penned Books Looking at Substantial Growth: Books authored by ChatGPT and similar chatbots are expected to grow ever more prevalent in coming years, according to a new study.
Market.us predicts that books created entirely by AI will be a $47 billion market by 2034.
Observes writer Ketan Mahajan: “The future of this market looks highly promising.”
*Google Rolls-Out Yet Another Spin on AI Search: Writers looking for another way to search may want to check-out the experimental ‘Web Guide’ from Google.
Observes Austin Wu, a group product manager at Google: “Web Guide groups Web links in helpful ways — like pages related to specific aspects of your query.
”Under the hood, Web Guide uses a custom version of Gemini (an AI chatbot) to better understand both a search query and content on the web, creating more powerful search capabilities that better surface web pages you may not have previously discovered.”
*AI Big Picture: Amazon Ring: Want a Promotion? Prove You Use AI: In one of the starkest indications of what may become commonplace, employees at Amazon Ring now need to prove they use AI if they want to get ahead.
Observes writer Lily Mai Lazarus: “To move up the corporate ladder at Amazon’s smart-home businesses, employees will now have to show AI use.
“And those in management positions will have to prove they are accomplishing ‘more with less’ using the technology.”
Mandatory as part of that proof: Specific examples of projects the employee has worked on that used AI successfully.
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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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