Editors and writers curious about AI's ability to generate long-form writing will want to check-out this piece by SEPGRA, an economic think tank. The group decided to give GPT-3 -- one of the world's most powerful AI text generators -- a run for its money by inputting one, simple phrase and asking GPT-3 to respond. The phrase: "Write an essay about text written by AI." The resulting 900-word essay published in this article is emblematic of the tech's current prowess. Essentially: The piece begins with an excellent focus on the specific topic, but becomes ever-more generalized as the article unfolds. In fact, by the close of the essay, GPT-3 completely veers-off into a discussion of AI's oft-reported ability to beat the world's greatest chess masters.

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Document processing automation startup Mindee today emerged from stealth with $14 million in series A funding led by GGV Capital, with participation from Alven, Serena Capital, and Bpifrance through its Digital Venture fund. The company plans to use the funding to expand its presence in the U.S. and Europe and further develop its machine learning and platform technologies. Despite the growing move toward digital transformation, HR professionals, accountants, government employees, and clerks take hours to manually enter information into their systems. Surveys show that employees spend somewhere around 150 hours a year searching for files in cabinets and 30% to 40% of their time looking for lost or misplaced paper.