Alliance of Independent Authors
Artificial intelligence sounds like a very futuristic term but you have already experienced it in your author business, from the Amazon algorithm to Google translate.
In this Advanced Self-Publishing Salon, ALLi Director Orna Ross and Advisor Joanna Penn of thecreativepenn.com look at some of the AI tools that are already available to us as indie authors and those that are likely to prove most useful in the years ahead.
Our advanced salon is brought to you by specialist sponsor IngramSpark, professional-grade publishing services at prices self-publishers can afford.
Here are some highlights:
Orna on the Future of Translation
“At the moment, translation is in the hands of literature societies who pay grants to translators to do months of work to translate a book, whereas the real creative work in that translation is actually the editing work. And I predict we’re going to see some amazing books for that reason and that translators are going to really be in demand and are going to become sort of creative entrepreneurs themselves.”
Joanna on What We Mean by AI
“It’s basically a catch-all term that is covering everything from Amazon ads or Facebook ads through cancer diagnoses based on image recognition. And there’s some incredible breakthroughs around that area. Diagnoses that humans cannot reach that level of detail. I’m actually a firm believer that these things will help us solve the biggest problems of humanity.”
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