PinTale: Feasibility study for a dynamic, AI-enabled writing support platform

无论是小说、学术、新闻还是任何其他类型的长篇内容，写作都是一项复杂而艰巨的任务，需要大量的计划、准备和笔记。这也是为什么80%的人想写书，但只有3%的人会开始写，最后完成的主要原因之一（polished-pages.com）。作家们传统上会求助于工具来帮助他们管理内容，保持条理性，提高工作效率，比如笔记本和便利贴。尽管其他创意产业的技术在进步，但大多数写作软件仍然只是传统“纸笔"工具的数字化版本，提供文字处理、记录或基本的时间轴生成工具，没有交叉交流。人工智能有可能从根本上改变这一局面。然而，目前写作圈内关于人工智能的大多数讨论都集中在文本生成人工智能对就业的威胁上。利用人工智能来支持所有学科的作家进行计划和写作，这是一个明显但未充分利用的机会，展示了人工智能如何在不代表作家生成文本的情况下加快和加强写作过程。我们正在开发PinTale：一个智能内容结构化平台，具有新颖的人工智能功能和动态可视化来支持写作过程。最初，它将包括小说作家的数字化工具，以提供作者输入的关键数据的智能可视化，以支持他们进行绘图，人物塑造，节奏等：显著破坏现有的软件工具并满足确定的作家需求。未来的功能将扩展PinTale的功能，以服务于更广泛的写作群体，包括记者和学者。该项目将对我们的AI技术进行可行性研究，与AI专家合作伙伴联合收割机AI和活跃的作家团体，包括巴斯温泉大学创意写作系的成员合作，为最终用户定义期望和必要的功能，并建立实现这些功能的途径。在项目结束时，我们将提供PinTale平台的架构和设计，以广泛的用户研究和报告为基础。至关重要的是，PinTale永远不会代表作者生成任何文本。它将从他们选择提供的输入中学习，并提供有用的，相关的智能数据可视化和指导，以帮助他们编写更好的长篇内容-而不是为他们编写。这代表了一个独特的机会，可以改变围绕人工智能的写作和更广泛的创意圈的叙述，为它如何作为一种工具来支持创作者而不是取代他们提供一个用例。

Whether it's fiction, academia, journalism, or any other type of longform content, writing is a complex and arduous task requiring significant planning, preparation and note-keeping. This is one of the key reasons why \>80% of people want to write a book, but only 3% who start ever finish (polished-pages.com).Writers have traditionally turned to tools to help them manage content, stay organised and increase productivity, such as notebooks and sticky notes. Despite technological advances in other creative industries, most writing software still acts simply as digitised versions of traditional 'pen and paper' tools, offering word-processing, record-keeping or basic timeline generation tools with no cross-communication.AI has the potential to radically transform this landscape. However, the majority of conversations about AI within writing circles currently centre around the threat to jobs created by text-generation AI. There is a clear and underexploited opportunity to utilise AI to support writers of all disciplines as they plan and write, demonstrating how AI can speed up and strengthen the writing process without generating text on writers' behalves.We are developing PinTale: an intelligent content structuring platform, with novel AI functionalities and dynamic visualisations to support the writing process. Initially, it will comprise digital tools for fiction writers to deliver smart visualisation of key data input by the author to support them in plotting, characterisation, pacing and more: significantly disrupting existing software tools and meeting identified writer needs. Future features will expand PinTale's functionality to serve wider writing groups including journalists and academics.This project will conduct a feasibility study for our AI-enabled technology, working with AI-expert partners Combine AI and active writers' groups including members of the Bath Spa University Creative Writing Department to define desired and necessary features for end-users and to establish the route to achieving them. By project end we will deliver the architecture and design for the PinTale platform, grounded in extensive user research and reporting.Crucially, PinTale will never generate any text on writers' behalves. It will learn from the inputs they choose to give and deliver useful, relevant smart data visualisation and guidance to help them write better longform content -- not to write it for them. This represents a unique opportunity to transform the narrative around AI in writing and wider creative circles, providing a use-case for how it can act as a tool to support creators rather than to supplant them.