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<\/a><\/p>\nThe possibilities of this platform seem endless, going beyond journalism and into basically any situation (including personal and professional settings) that requires making sense of data. Examples include writing internal company memos, creating end of quarter presentations, or gaining insights from your bank account activity. According to a report from the International Data Corporation, global data generation will likely increase to about 163 zettabytes (sextillion bytes) by 2025, which means that we will need all the help we can get in making sense of it all.<\/p>\n
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While Wordsmith is making substantial progress in helping users interpret vast amounts of data, it still has a long way to go in terms of ease of use and how \u201cnatural\u201d its NLG output actually sounds. Wordsmith users on software review website G2 note that, while the platform has saved them hours in processing and interpreting data, its dashboards can be overwhelming and confusing at times. Initial set up time is also a common pain point, described as time consuming and highly technical. There is also room for improvement on the NLG output, which sometimes sounds too \u201crobotic\u201d and requires that users go back and give it the human touch.<\/p>\n
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User experience issues such as ease of use are probably a straight-forward fix for Automated Insights, which should be able to iron them out as it collects more user feedback. As for the quality of NLG output, improvement will depend on how powerful its underlying AI technology is, which determines the platform\u2019s capacity to learn and refine after each iteration. Beyond these two fronts, Automated Insights can further its mission to help make sense of the world\u2019s data by developing integrations with other popular business intelligence solutions. Its partner network already includes important players such as Tableau, and by further expanding this network the company will ensure its relevance in the space and facilitate adoption by organizations and individual users.<\/p>\n
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Looking forward, one could reasonably expect that AI capabilities such as Wordsmith\u2019s will become even more powerful and sophisticated, enabling full writeups with vivid, human-like commentary at the click of a button. Automated Insights should tread carefully as its technology progresses \u2013 in an ideal future, data interpretation will remain clear, objective, and impartial. However, this is an unlikely scenario, seeing as how we\u2019re already highly adept at bending information to suit our needs (without the help of any sophisticated technology). The ability to generate toxic, manipulative, or dangerous narratives in an instant could open (even more) the floodgates to misinformation, so Automated Insights should place extra care in ensuring that its AI technology remains fully impartial. Leave political commentary to humans, and maybe a robot might snatch a Pulitzer after all.<\/p>\n
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