In the workplace, writing research reports is a headache for everyone. The data collection and analysis in the early stage, and the final draft, will take up a lot of our time and energy. And with the help of Baidu Orange's ability, these tasks can be completed very well now.
In the past National Day, OpenAI launched a new product form for writing and programming scenariosCanvas, in the Canvas mode, users are no longer just talking to AI, but can recreate and arrange AI-generated content, the official original words are as follows:
“Although the chat interface is easy to use and works well for many tasks, it’s limited when you want to work on projects that require editing and revisions.”
How to understand it? Next, let's substitute into the scene together.
1. What kind of AI products are needed for creative scenarios?
As a content creator, I think the most complex creative scenarios at present should be academic papers and financial research reports, so let's take an example from the financial circle to see what are the pain points in the current creative scene.
In the financial investment community, writing research reports, market analysis and investment strategy reports has always been a time-consuming and labor-intensive task. Not only do analysts need to process large amounts of data, but they also need to quickly organize that information into logical, well-structured reports. This creative process often requires repeated revisions and adjustments, especially for the in-depth editing of reports, such as the insertion of data tables and graphs, the refining of arguments, etc., which often rely on multiple different tools, which is inefficient and tends to disrupt the pace of work.
With existing conversation-based AI products, it is inevitable to move content back and forth between AI conversations and reports, and at the same time, in order for AI to generate content that is more suitable for the current document context, it is necessary to continuously provide the latest content in the document to the AI, and the whole process is actually not user-friendly.
So when the canvas was released, I immediately went to experience and understand, but after the experience, I found that it could only improve efficiency to a certain extent, and the whole creative process still couldn't be completed in canvas, such as finding data reports and making charts, I still had to go to other platforms to complete.
Is there an AI tool that can truly write professional reports on a single platform?
With this question, I searched and found that Baidu actually released the "Orange Chapter" in May this year, which has long covered the relevant functions of Canvas. It is the AI product that I have found to empower the best creative scenes, and it is also the first one-stop AI free creation and free expression platform with built-in in-depth editing capabilities that I have learned in China.
Through the built-in AI editor, it can support cross-modal synchronous editing functions such as text, PPT, and pictures, and at the same time, scenarios such as data search, revision, and typesetting can also be completed in the orange article, without switching between multiple tools, which greatly improves the creative efficiency.
Having said all that, today I will take you to experience it from a first-person perspective, and see how to use the orange article to conduct one-stop professional information inquiry, reading, professional long article creation and editing in the financial field.
2. Unboxing evaluation, how to complete a research report in the orange article
Orange currently supports the generation of various types of long essays such as papers, project reports, and research reports, which are very suitable for the daily work needs of investment and financial circles. For example, the stock market has been hot recently, and today I will take writing a financial research report related to "the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike" as an example to see what capabilities the orange article provides to help complete the writing of this report from 0.
1. Drafting of the first draft
It is often difficult to write a research report from 0, we usually go to the Internet to find some sample articles for reference, and then determine the overall outline of the report on the basis of the sample essays, and then gradually improve the content, now this process can be completed directly through the "long essay creation" ability of the orange article, we directly enter the topic of the project report, and the orange article will generate a project report outline for us after input.
For example, I typed in "Analysis of the impact of the Fed's interest rate hike path on the global self-examination configuration", and the orange article quickly generated a clear outline, and allowed me to adjust and edit it in real time, and after adjusting the outline, click "generate long essay", and the orange article will start to generate long essays (as far as the author knows, the orange article can generate articles up to 10w words long).
2. Adjust the first draft
After getting the first draft, I used to adjust the priority of the content in the report first, streamlining the non-core content and extending the key content, so that the whole report could be more prioritized and focused.
For example, when I expanded "The Impact of the Federal Reserve's Interest Rate Hike on Conceptual Speculation Stocks", I only needed to select the corresponding content and select the expansion, and the Orange article was automatically supplemented with more than 700 words of content description.
In the first draft, there are some non-core content that I want to condense, and I only need to mark the content I want to abbreviate, and the orange article will give the abbreviated content, and if we are not satisfied, we can also choose to regenerate, and if we are satisfied, we can directly replace the original text.
3. Enrich the content of the report
In the process of using it, I found a more powerful ability "Correction and Polish", which can review the global content of the report, not only to correct the error content in the report, but also to give some suggestions for readability optimization.
To my surprise, it also gives some content-level suggestions.
As you can see from the figure below, the orange chapter can combine different chapters, and it is recommended that I add some cases, chart data, and reference information to specific content positions in the report to make the report more detailed.
Is it enough to just give advice?
If this is not enough to meet the needs of users, some content, such as non-public data, actual cases, and references, is difficult for AI to provide, and we don't want to get "fabricated" content.
How can this problem be solved?
The Orange Chapter provides a new idea, which organically combines Baidu Academic's and even the entire network's academic materials, creation platforms and large models to create the industry's first one-stop AI free creation platform for "access and creation".
Like the references mentioned above, you can search through the "data search" in the orange article, after entering the topic of the literature, the orange article will search for relevant references on the whole network, and then we can query it on demand and cite it in the report.
We can search through "Data Search" in the orange article, and after entering the literature subject, the orange article will search for relevant references from the Baidu academic database. For example, in the section on the impact of the Fed's interest rate hikes on the market, I can quote market data from the Financial Times or Bloomberg to make the report more authoritative.
In addition to searching for papers online, like some information in our computer, you can also send it directly to the orange article for summary, originally we need to rely on ourselves to find the content we need from the data, and then refine and summarize it ourselves.
4. Supplemental chart description
In order to achieve such an effect, we all need to find data, organize data, enter data, and then insert charts.
Now just open the "Make Chart" function of the orange article, select a line chart, bar chart or pie chart, and provide the data-related text to the orange article, it can directly generate a chart for us, you can see that I input the relevant data of the Fed's interest rate hike, and the orange article will help me generate a line chart that more intuitively shows the trend of interest rate changes.
5. Layout format optimization
After the content is written, the final layout is left, the orange article currently provides comprehensive word editing capabilities, and you can further insert tables, pictures and other content, of course, if you want to be lazy, you can also use the "formatting" tool to make quick adjustments, complete this step, and a report will be completed.
summary
In addition to the ability to benchmark Canvas's Suggest edits, Adjust the length, Add final polish and other capabilities, there are also 2 highlights that are more bright than Canvas:
The first is to rely on the Chinese large model + massive academic library resources, which can better serve domestic users; The second is not only to provide AI creation and editing capabilities, but also to empower the whole process of searching, reading, creating, and editing, so that users can have a closed-loop experience in professional creation scenarios.
Recently, Orange also announced a strategic cooperation with the School of Economics and Management of Communication University of China, and the "Zhongchuan Jingxiaoji" agent jointly developed by the two parties is the first "university agent" jointly built by enterprises and universities in the field of economics, which can meet the needs of users in the field of economics such as content retrieval, learning and office in one stop.
In the near future, we also look forward to the continuous evolution of the Orange Chapter and become a professional AI creation product in more vertical fields.
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