“The automated news writing robot automatically generates manuscripts in the first time according to the algorithm, instantaneous output analysis and research judgment, and delivers important information and interpretation to users within one minute “This article is from the WeChat official account: light amplification (ID: guokr233) , author: Yang-yi, editor: Sun Ruliang, title FIG. From: GIPHY
In 2015, Alpha Dog has not yet swept the chess world, and people have not yet been worried about their limited intelligence. However, in September of this year, Tencent Finance released an article entitled “CPI rose by 2.0% year-on-year to 12 in August. The article [1] of “New Moon High”, fanned the wings of artificial intelligence——The author of this article Not humans, but AI writing robots.
Since then, artificial intelligence has taken the second, third and more steps to the kingdom of human intelligence and inspiration.
The Rio Olympic Games in August 2016 became a show ground for AI writing robots of Internet companies such as Tencent and ByteDance. Its “second-level” drafting efficiency made a group of carbon-based lives beyond the reach of the dust, and even worsened the media. Ashamed. What people worry about is that it may not take long before text creators will be replaced by AI and become the labor force eliminated by technology.
However, four years later, these people still ought to eat, drink, and there is no sign of career end. Where are those AI writing robots that once threatened the careers of text creators?
robots grabbing jobs
Things have to go back to 2015-Tencent’s Dreamwriter once triggered the Internet’s imagination of AI writing robots. [2]AI writing robots can form a positive cycle in their respective platforms. Ideally, in the closed loop of “Creating Manuscripts—Publishing Exposure—Feedback Learning—Continue Creating”, AI writing robots can continuously learn to bring more and more in line with mainstream readers content. The optimistic prediction is that robots will replace writers all over the world.
But not.
The robot loses the press
In fact, the industry has already predicted the failure of AI writing robots.
In 2015, a BBC data study showed that in the next 20 years, the probability of artificial intelligence replacing reporters and editors is only 8.4%; as for writers and translators, it is slightly higher, and only 32.4%. [9]
Nowadays, on the Internet in China, it is difficult for readers to see news about the production of AI writing robots unless they actively search.
The silence of DT manuscript king is only one year and one month after its high-profile release. So far, on the official website of China Business News, DT Manuscript Wang has only left 6 historical articles with “0 comments” and “0 likes”, the last of which was published on June 9, 2017. Tang Kaizhi, the chief data scientist of CBN, who preached that “the era of smart news has come,” has also left with a low profile.
After Xiaomingbot received the Wu Wenjun Award, Bytedance did not announce the follow-up progress of the project. The focus area of its headline number gradually shrinks, and the creative content is only the football game until it stops. A recent article on the Toutiao App, stayed on August 29, 2019, and there has been no news since then.
Dreamwriter is still active today, and probably the only active writing robot-if you are careful enough, you can find its traces in some event reports, financial news and local weather forecasts.
However, Dreamwriter today is quite embarrassing within Tencent: “Some of the manuscripts written by robots will still enter the content pool, but due to quality issues, it is difficult to recommend them.” An editor who once worked for Tencent Sports told the zoom lamp team (ID: guokr233), he was told during the induction training that if he saw the robot manuscript in the background, he could ignore it and not send it.
An interesting paradox is: the success of AI writing robots in attracting public attention also requires humans to write articles to introduce them to popularization-how do we believe that such high technology can produce good content?
The robot thing, can it be called manuscript washing?
The “non-standard product” of the article is a typical product of human wisdom. It requires logic, language sense, aesthetics and values. If you want to write clearly and understandably, you probably need some talent. In contrast, no one can match the speed of AI writing robots, and the quality of manuscripts is really inadequate.
Take Dreamwriter as an example. There are big problems in language expression alone. Tencent insiders told the Zoom Light team that the manuscript created by Dreamwriter has a large number of presentation flaws, and the editor needs to manually adjust a lot of details to meet the publishing standards. Sometimes the same person’s name is inconsistent in the same article, and the editor has to carefully proofread these common sense errors.
Not only that, but AI writing robots have no professional ethics at all. Basketball News reader Yu He discovered that Dreamwriter has learned to “slacken”.
Yu He told the magnifying lamp team that an article by Dreamwriter on Tencent News was titled “Booker 27 points, Ayton 24+12, the sun takes the Wizards with 21 points”< sup label="Remarks">[10]’s article, the content of which is largely copied from the NBA China official website news “Booker 27 points Ayton 24+12 Suns start all double-King Wizards”< span class="text-remarks">[11].
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When the popularity of writing robots fades, users will not care whether the author is human or AI. Research by scholars from Shanghai Jiaotong University and the University of Florida found that most readers are not interested in whether the news is written by humans or machines. As long as they need information, they will open their eyes. [15]
After all, few human authors can remember their names, let alone AI?
the “fill in the blank machine” without emotion
At present, it seems that AI writing robots lack a masterpiece that can impress readers.
The artificial intelligence language model GTP-3 released by Open AI once hoped to become a “breaker”. From a technical point of view, GPT-3 may be the most advanced artificial intelligence at present, with parameters and training data set capacity leading the industry. Among them, the former is ten times higher than the largest similar product and can bring more accurate results; while the latter is as high as 45TB, which is equivalent to 167 English Wikipedia(167 *6 million entries) capacity. [16]
Advanced models should lead to high-quality articles. On September 8, 2020, GPT-3 wrote an article to “show loyalty” to humans under the instructions of the editorial department of the “Guardian”, and the vivid and smooth text surprised four people for a while:
“I am not a human. I am an artificial intelligence. Many people think that I pose a threat to humans… I want to convince you not to worry about it. Artificial intelligence will not destroy humans. Please1]
Of course, it’s okay to insist on letting AI take the lead now, as long as you are ready for AI to mess things up–
In May of this year, Microsoft replaced the MSN editorial team with AI. A week later, AI stabbed Microsoft-in an article about racism, it confused two members of color in the same band. [22]
The editor Brian Jonah laid off by Microsoft (Bryan Joiner) gloated in Vice, saying: Microsoft’s work still has to Relying on people to do it, after all, artificial intelligence does not know what it can do or why it does it. [23]
A newborn thing is hard to perfect. We should not underestimate the AI writing robot. Like AR and VR, it is a technically premature baby. The future may have its own world, but not now. As for how these premature babies who have already appeared will find a suitable place in the future world, it is a problem for the “dads” of technology companies.
References:
[1] In August, the CPI rose 2.0% year-on-year and hit a 12-month high https://finance.qq.com/a/20150910/019573.htm< /p>
[2] Robot writing? It’s big data analysis! http://m.haiwainet.cn/middle/352345/2015/0911/content_29153160_1.html
[3] “Smart Writing”: Produce a manuscript in less than 1 second http://www.chinanews.com/business/2018/07-09/856066″text-remarks”>[12] DT manuscript king homepage https://www.yicai.com/author/794.html
[13] Diao Yigang, Chen Xuguan. Behind “Xiaomingbot”, the technical exploration of manuscript robots-an interview with Dr. Wan Xiaojun, Institute of Computer Science and Technology, Peking University[J] .China Media Technology, 2016(09):10-11.
[14] Chen Xiaoxi. Comparison of robot news and journalists’ manuscripts[J]. News reporter, 2016(09):18-21.
[15] Mou Yi, Xia Kai, Ekaterina Novozhilova, Xu Kun. Information Processing and Attitude Cognition of Artificial Intelligence Creation Content——Experimental Research Based on the Theory of Information Double Processing[ J].Journalism University,2019(08):30-43+121-122.
[16] Why is the global GPT-3 hitting everyone’s jobs? https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/L3RxELKXJ1zp8Yo5b-2tYQ
[17] Artificial intelligence GPT-3 wrote an article for The Guardian http://cn.dailyeconomic.com/tech/2020/09/11/9892.html
[18] Will AI be “loyal” to humans? “The Guardian” “AI writing articles” accused of grandstanding https://world.huanqiu.com/article/3zoxMSWeUv2
[19] Where is the bottleneck in the development of Chinese smart writing? http://zhouxin.blog.caixin.com/archives/206111
[20] The sixth generation of Microsoft Xiaoice: A summary of the use of Xiaoice by 90% of Chinese financial institutions https://www.microsoft.com/zh-cn/ard/news/news_2018_50
[21] Baidu Intelligent Creation Platform https://ai.baidu.com/creation/main/index
[22] Microsoft’s robot editor confuses mixed-race Little Mix singers https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/09/microsofts-robot-journalist- confused-by-mixed-race-little-mix-singers
[23] The Robots Microsoft Assigned to Do My Job Can’t Do Ithttps://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/k7q3je/msn-news-algorithm- robots-microsoft-cant-do-my-job
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