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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Your title is incredibly misleading. We have no evidence that Amazon is getting ready to "Produce AI Generated Novels", and that article doesn't even present a good argument that Amazon is capable of doing so.
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Indeed.
Microsoft and a hundred startups have the exact same "capabilities" and the exact same inclination as Amazon. Which is to say zero interest in publishing.
The highly touted "AI" in most media brags is simply a slightly more sophisticated database query technology for big businesses. Amazon's "AI" efforts, like Microsoft's, IBM, Google, et al, are aimed at big companies writing their own line-of-business applications, mostly on the cloud computing services that are displacing the last business-class mainframes and a lot of corporate centralized computing functions.
Here's a good summary of where Microsoft is going, which is similar to what everybody else in the field is doing:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/making...pproach-to-ai/
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Microsoft is working on a number of AI "Accelerators," solution templates and analytics templates to give users a way to build on top of some repeatable patterns and practices around AI. Microsoft announced earlier this week a new solution accelerator for virtual assistantsthat it's making available on GitHub that is aimed at allowing customers and partners to build their own enterprise-grade "conversational assistant" that can be personalized for their customer base. This accelerator uses the Azure Bot Service under the covers.
Microsoft's plan is to try to get developers to write new apps and services using the Azure Bot Service or by calling specific application programming interfaces (APIs) that it offers through its so-called cognitive services. Users have the option of building on top of Microsoft's own vision, text, speech, knowledge and other cognitive services and/or to customize these APIs.
Microsoft has identified some key, repeatable patterns for AI solutions around things like business agents/bots; person/object/activity detection; knowledge mining of documents and video; and autonomous vehicle, networks and other kinds of systems. And it is targeting these around a handful of key vertical markets, like healthcare, insurance, finance, retail/marketing and manufacturing.
Speaking of cognitive services, Microsoft is taking an interesting tack in making some of its cognitive services available for use in containers. The idea is by containerizing these APIs, Microsoft can make them available in cases where users can't use them easily in the public cloud.
As of this week, Microsoft made five AI capabilities available in containers in public preview form: key phrase extraction, language detection, sentiment analysis, face and emoticon detection and OCR/text recognition. More containerized services are planned, including speech and language understanding.
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Bolding mine.
Some of the pattern recognition functions *could* be used to assemble narratives from boilerplate but there is little money in that area. Those with the capabilities have better (more profitable) uses for the resources and those with the interest have neither the capabilities nor the resources.
You might see a stunt or demonstration project out of academia but in practical terms it's a dead end. Only actual humans work for as little return as there is in writing fiction.
