Google's new AI podcast tool goes viral

[@jw999]

The reporters are getting nervous about their job security...

[@LuisDigitalTV]

We will all be replaced, it's just a matter of time.

[@joseafalvel]

that made me laugh

[@codeaperture]

😂

[@zurgmuckerberg]

Nah, reporters and news achors would be fine. There's a niche for AI news anchor and reporters but most likely people would still prefer human talking to them.

[@LyRiCss718]

Tech is getting so good you wont even tell the difference. Like the body snatchers. 😮​@zurgmuckerberg

[@CamiloSanchez1979]

Google in a year: "We are discontinuing Ai Podcast…"

[@top-5l]

🤣

[@Naiff.1]

As always brother as alwayys

[@iocoker]

🤣🤣🤣

[@nml5536]

best comment

[@jimberry7865]

Totally. Or they'll think it's good enough (bugs and all) and never update it again.

[@selinov]

We can almost see the exact moment Deirdre realizes her job is being automated. 🤔

[@dgaz3057]

You better have good jokes like the court jester or you're cooked.

[@silvrsurfer]

Deidre Megadodo, if you know you know

[@Anthony-dj4nd]

😂😅

[@Vix381]

So funny! 😂

[@filmonyoha7134]

I am waiting for y'all to be my apprentices for my plumbing school😂

[@nosam1998]

Man, did you think Morgan Freeman was rich now? Wait till he licenses his voice LOL

[@jumpy2783]

Other LLMs will come out and do the same thing but with 0 incentive

[@nosam1998]

@@jumpy2783 Doubt it. LLMs and their popularity will die soon (you can't attach a year figure to this). We've seen this countless times with tech hype cycles, yet everyone somehow falls for it. I'm a Software Engineer, and LLMs are atrocious at the actual work that we'd need them for. The hype cycle has reached its peak IMO, especially after seeing how far LLMs have encroached. I'll never forget seeing a coffee maker at CES that happily advertised that it has "AI Inside". I've seen this many times now, and it always expands until a certain point, and then it contracts back to reality. I'm very pessimistic about LLMs (NOT AI in general). They're great at language, and that's it. Feel free to doubt this perspective. People usually do. They love to buy into the hype that tech is feeding them. Whenever an opinion like mine is added, the response is usually defensive. Yet, I'm not saying LLMs are useless overall, and they have a use case. Remember the metaverse with VR/AR? VR and AR are still around and have a use case, and so is cloud and every other cycle.

[@teezy13500]

Guys I just use this and this is scary good. I pasted a risk management book for a CISSP certification and they made the text so interesting with jokes and naturally transitioning into different topics with good examples making the info so easily digestible. I think this will be the future of learning for sure for this generation that has grown up with podcasts all around

[@hellboy7153]

Exactly! i uploaded a long Research paper, it made it as a fun listening experience !!. i really want this to be on the internet forever

[@superblondeDotOrg]

Upgrade your brain so you do not need a fluffy "fun listening experience". Seriously wtf is it useful for, just read the damn book. Dont need ai to dumb it down...unless y'all dumb!

[@traderz13]

Why would we need new students or anyone to learn anything at all. Cut out the middle “man”.

[@TeraGreene1]

A generation of people who can’t read, nor spell. “Sounds lovely”, she said, sarcastically and potentially grammatically incorrect. 😊

[@Im.Smaher]

⁠@@TeraGreene1That’s the opposite of what they said. You’re clearly part of the generation that can’t read, lol

[@RostyslavKobizsky]

"Aha, uhu, yeah, right, yep" - AI seems caught the real vibe of podcasts

[@viveks2002]

😂

[@TinkletitsMcGee]

💀

[@n3xu59988]

And just like that the Podcast Industry went up in smoke! lol

[@AMDixon]

Idk if this is going to replace podcasts, as much as it allows the format of a podcast to be applied to different types of content consumption - for example, instead of reading a white paper, you can turn it into a podcast and consume it in a more conversational way. What it does not do is replace the character and personality of many people’s favorite podcasters. Putting in a random news report and turning it into a podcast is very different from having (for example) Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway of Pivot read the same story and give their perspective and opinion on it. If I’m listening to an episode of the Ezra Klein show and he’s reviewing a book - I want to hear his specific perspective, not just random bot banter about the book. Great tool for opening up different types of content to easily be consumed as a podcast, but won’t replace the podcasters whose audience tunes in due to their personality and perspective.

[@agme8045]

I completely agree with you. That being said, it’s not very hard to make an AI imitate a certain personality. It’d be as easy as feed the AI all of Kara Swishers previous podcasts, which account for hours upon hours of information to teach the AI what her style of humor is, what words and phrases she commonly uses, how she accentuates words or how she builds tension, etc.

[@chebroadnax]

I mean, we're going to have to start discerning between style and substance at some point.

[@ayurdal]

No longer sure that these two reporters are not AI 😮

[@lezgamesnwatch]

Seems like they updated their version and it's doing great this AI.😮

[@CinemaSloth999]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/haXNqpKcps1jeq8si=0wVm81oWO9meoIBI

[@AceFlexFitness0007]

I always thought it would be the blue collar workers who were the first to go but it’s the artists and white collar workers. 😂😂😂😂

[@cheese-power]

Blue-collar workers are already half gone

[@ultramax1012]

😂

[@1989ksp]

I think the blue collar workers will stay. We will need people to lay bricks, build roofs.

[@jmg9509]

Funny how life works aye?

[@kk4649k]

Yeah my friends who all went coding are all laid off. Meanwhile I’m making $67/hr being a blue collar dude. Not much but I’m chillin. 😎

[@abhishekshinde2994]

99% of Humans are in the process of achieving their own obsolescence!

[@alienPear]

AI is a tool. Stop using non-factual information.

[@fuleinist]

Quote from The Matrix Prequel 😅

[@realcyberpirate]

Not "their" but others'

[@See669]

…for the benefit of the 1%

[@abhishekshinde2994]

​@@realcyberpiratewell said.. that's what "they" think!

[@ps3301]

We can replace all tv hosts

[@JandorGr]

Most. Definitely not all right now.

[@AmorFatiistaken]

@@JandorGr soon

[@Kiwi-Ahh-Nah]

But why is that something we should want/support/allow?

[@AmorFatiistaken]

@@Kiwi-Ahh-Nah Not up to us. If they can save money they will do it

[@thelibrarian3734]

@@Kiwi-Ahh-Nahthey make over 100k a year and come with opinions so they will be cut.

[@saikumargorantla]

glad NotebookLM is receiving limelight. Some part of me doesn't want this to become mainstream though. Audio Podcast probably comes last on list on how impressive the tool is. It's amazing, essentially it's like we have someone who could read all the information that we could possibly feed and answer whatever question we through at them citing their answers to the exact reference in the source.

[@dan-nutu]

I need something like this so badly, I'll go look for options to use it if possible

[@jumpy2783]

Considering you didn't use, "through" in the right context... I'm starting to think only the uneducated want such a thing Jk

[@saikumargorantla]

@@jumpy2783 :) throw* you can use it!

[@DavidGwynnJones]

So the male AI podcast voice does all the talking and the female just goes uh-huh and ok.... Gotcha

[@dan-nutu]

It learned from what it was fed 😃

[@stevensonjr]

Not at all. Try it. But as usual this is what they showed here!

[@bobbysands6923]

No, not true. I did one of these and it was pretty equal. I fed a short story I wrote into it, and got a complete summary, study-points, and a 7 minute podcasts in about 10 minutes. It is extremely useful for teaching and re-writing. And it is not sexist.

[@CinemaSloth999]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/haXNqpKcps1jeq8si=0wVm81oWO9meoIBI

[@budmonk2819]

I added the sources of my performance goals, my JIRA tickets and the recommended narratives to Notebook LLM and it gave me my self evaluation for the year.

[@randolm7698]

I remember when people were blown away (like this) when you could first watch videos on the Internet - but the reality is that the Internet really hasn't changed drastically since then other than the enormous speed difference. But the leaps we are now seeing with AI seemingly daily are just frigging mind blowing - I can't even dare imagine the next 20 years.

[@j2csharp]

I can't even imagine what we'll see in the next 20 days!

[@glencorajane]

Yes and we will all be redundant.scary

[@wildpants9347]

"this blew my mind" wait until it comes for all of your jobs soon. Soon we will have Ai models doing news reports, debates etc. It would reach a point where Media corporations will find it more profitable paying for these Ai models than paying for human reporters. Who needs voice and dubbing actors when you could just generate what you want. The funny thing is all of this is trained on humans so essentially its us humans paving our way for own destruction all because we wanted machines to do our work for us.

[@moderncontemplative]

This is nothing short of amazing. It is another ChatGPT moment for AI. It’s another way of personalizing and humanizing AI

[@FenrirsBite77]

Soon, the Internet will be a dark forest, with only a few small pockets of human interaction groups, everything else, AI generated.

[@VinMan-ql1yu]

It would have made more sense to use the tool to replace one of the main reporter in the news video and reveal it later to see if the audience did see the difference.

[@Bso3350]

This is terrifying.

[@ryanniven]

its awesome how accurate Futurama is

[@grahamashe9715]

Do we really need more podcasts?

[@mycollegeshirt]

it's not about podcasts. It's about research, and learning. In general scientists are terrible communicators and not the best writers.It's immensly useful when you are looking through an extremely technical paper you're using in a different field. Now it's written with more engangement and you can do it while working on other projects. Huge timesave.

[@SeaCrestInNOut]

Wooosh

[@KK-pm7ud]

No

[@DavidDavoDavidson]

I’m going to guess I can consume exactly the sort of news I want every morning in a podcast form on my way to work and have them summarize everything in 10 mins. This is pretty cool.

[@gavinlew8273]

Literally: Fake it till you make it

[@superAweber]

I paid a bit of moolah 3 months ago, for a tool that does this, it takes your research sources and responds to your questions, but with text not audio. Extremely useful app for writers

[@sanseverything900]

I can see this tech dominating the podcast world in short time. Think of all the time and money saved when you can just copy-paste all the data yourself and have it spit out an entire podcast in less than ten minutes. Right now regular podcasts need several days or even weeks to research, script and record their shows. Now here is the technology for a single person to pump out a show in a micro-fraction of that time.

[@mertozelmusic]

Highly Deceptive and Dangerous

[@monicarenee7949]

Well this is some of the most realistic sounding AI I’ve heard so far. Soon it will be hard if not impossible to distinguish between AI generated talks and real talks. I can only pray the wrong people don’t get their hands on it

[@aucklanddrive3394]

Please look at the bigger picture "What is the point of all this? AI?"

[@GenAIPodcasts]

There are Podcasts completely generated by AI - Presidential Debate - GenAI Podcasts Channel

[@michaelarmani8286]

How do I know this video isn't AI generated

[@sanesanyo]

Same Deirdre who was reporting about obsolescence of Google now talking about NotebookLM. These reporters change their tune as they see fit.

[@robindehood207]

It's anything that gets them views. They aim to "wow!", nothing else.

[@zurgmuckerberg]

That's because that's what they are, reporters. They're the mouthpiece, not the brain behind all of your news.

[@maina.wambui]

​@@zurgmuckerberg💯

[@q_cumber5936]

This is by far the best tool I have used for learning, period.

[@alejandroalvarezbenitez7037]

This will be better in future than listen to some CNBC videos!!!

[@KelleNuwa]

Ouch 🤕, are u being sarcastic or are u fr

[@yessiri3515]

Podcasting is finished now. Everyone can be a Podcaster now.😂😂

[@rachmadsuhartono]

More people are losing their job

[@jumpy2783]

And the common people who are uplifting this don't think they're going to be replaced themselves. They think that THEY'LL be the CEOs. No moral compass, it's just replace or be replaced for them

[@HelloworlditsSamuel]

Most of my life I have been in broadcasting and media production, it's all I know. This is beyond heartbreaking and it's equally frightening to see this. I mean, at what point will ethics and accountability be seriously discussed?

[@Parannadikkum.simon5]

Google next year : Sorry guys we are discontinuing Google podcasts because it didn't generate 362736637 billion dollars a year.

[@jumpy2783]

They make 95% of their revenue from investments 😂

[@ClaudiaS193]

Notebook LLM is incredible! I totally love it. I‘m training it right now to understand German criminal law, and I can‘t wait till the podcast can speak German. Often it has problems with German law terminology. As soon as it works, I’ll train it in German tax law. 🎉 It’s so incredible useful, it blows my mind. Besides that, its so much fun.

[@TeraGreene1]

Scary, only because it just fosters more people incapable of reading and spelling. We are actually doomed. Love tech, and I have used it since I was 3 in 1986 with my first computer. But, I also learned to read and spell. And use my brain. I worry for our future. Glad my kid loves to read and write, even though he does also enjoy his tech.

[@HUBRISTICAL]

I knew about this 2 weeks ago. It has literally gone viral.

[@kauigirl808]

Wooo 😂😂😂😂

[@HelloworlditsSamuel]

Yep, anyone could be a podcaster, now anything with AI built in can be. This is just beyond a joke now and making my years of broadcasting and education look worthless. Thanks tech 😒

[@sofrshsocln4]

​@@HelloworlditsSamuelhi... podcast listener here. I'm not a daily regular, but tbh I tune out out the "uh huh yes" type of podcasts that this ain example gives. You don't have that warm immersive insightful vibe that a real podcast provides.... so keep at it. Your work is never worthless. Take care

[@voetstoets]

I foresee three main groups of jobs/ strategies by people into the future 1. Those that embrace the convergence of tech and seek to benefit from it and its maintenance. This group will have almost unlimitted generative power but may lose sense of meaning. 2. Those that use some AI, but whose enterprises involve hands-on, contact, face to face or experiential enterprizes, eg: massage, hair cutting, theatre, gardening. 3. Those that reject AI generated reality, go analog as a counter-reaction, and insist on real-life experience based, or people generated creativity and reality (as a way of maintaining meaning). This group risks being left behind. Perhaps a variety of strategies will work.

[@temsukabapongen6284]

I thought the reporter with the 🧥 is AI

[@khodahh]

I'm not comfortable with AI and "killer app" being in the same sentence

[@cuchanu]

Who on Earth wants to listen to computers talk to each other?

[@apolodelsol]

Exactly

[@jehhuty]

You sound like those guys doubting the internet some years ago

[@cuchanu]

@@jehhuty I don't know what you're referring to so I can't really respond

[@softwarerevolutions]

CNBC reporting with much difficulty.

[@hangender]

AI hawk tuah

[@juanluismartinez4587]

😂 AI will never be this clever.

[@wavelengthrecords-1]

I know who that is but don't get how she applies here.

[@apolodelsol]

All these user cases around AI only makes evident that AI is just a useless and expensive bubble in denial

[@bobbysands6923]

It works great. I fed my short story into it, and in 10 minutes I got a summary, teaching points, and a 7.5 minute podcast. While not completely accurate (it mistook a man whose name could also be female as female), it was 90 percent spot on. It also places you into a chat where you can ask questions about your own story (or anything). It is great teaching tool, but for writers it is great for revising. It is a bit creepy, an it is not perfect, but I don't think anyone is going to lose their jobs over it. I would use it.

[@bearimo2867]

But this is the problem. One serious mistake could be interpreted by the AI and mislead the listener who is studying to develop completely wrong conclusions. AI is not intelligent. It is code. It receives inputs and provides output responses.

[@Deep-Dive-Minds]

This reporter just signed off. Like.. "It was fun entertaining you until 2024, now meet your new hosts" 🤣

[@linuxbrad]

So the use case is to take a page or so of real information and fluff it into an hour long podcast, including copious filler words and nonsense all to fill up a podcast so ads can be served throughout the fluff?

[@sanseverything900]

Don't worry, someone will (or already has) develop an AI that takes all that padded fluff and condense it into snack-sized bits that can be consumed in seconds.

[@tintintin070]

wow what a creative strawman

[@RickySupriyadi]

did you all know... there is rumor about... these ai feeded data about themselves and... after several podcast they are questioning their existences... it is really interesting

[@candyts-sj7zh]

Someone uploaded some data that said the hosts of the DeepDive podcast are actually AI, and they seem to not be aware of this fact so it lead to some very interesting dialogue.

[@blindstreet]

Yes heard that too and it's creepy. The guy even said he called his non-existent wife to ask about it.

[@silvrsurfer]

Very useful, I use it for studying. Not necessarily the podcast part, but NotebookLM as a whole

[@DeStresswithDee]

I have been using it and Loving It :) Deeply Grateful from Canada's Capital :)

[@Darkuni]

I don't know why that woman is smiling. AI is about to come take her job.

[@TheDunningKrugerEffectisReal]

I can't wait to watch people interrupt the ai mid sentence and have it be a back and forth stuttering moment.

[@AlonsoLioneth]

It's great you can create this podcast with whomever voice you want but I believed you cannot use said voice without their consent, and that person needs to be pay

[@cristiano5774]

i was sceptical about this thing but this is really nice for learning especially boring things xD

[@j2csharp]

The best use case I've had so far is to prepare the podcast based on some article of interest, then play it back on my commute. Just for fun, I found a text document on a star trek episode, and it beautifully covered the content.

[@Theotherone232]

NotebookLM is nice tool you can turn any pdf or KZbin video to podcast

[@Reveluation]

No Need to employ you No More We got AI!

[@citizen_of_earth_]

Things are getting interesting.

[@HelloworlditsSamuel]

I wonder what will become the next form of... employment when us humans become potentially redundant 😅

[@KungJayLao]

sounds like Leo Laporte

[@paullo8268]

AI is strong by stealing knowledge and voices from ppl.

[@codefinity]

Holy 💩. A lot of AI 🤖 stuff is 'fake' and/or overhyped or just ultimately useless, but this truly is something 🆒. I'm a fan of 'freedom of AI' to the max, but I do see where we may have license 'likeness of audio.' Else, we could create all kinds of fake 'gotcha' recordings, etc. It will be used for nefarious purposes anyway, but there may need to be some type of governance, validation and/or licensing system.

[@stephenmakide2300]

Wait till they realise google cooking one that you will be able to ask question in yhe podcast

[@doombga]

three times in a row today advanced chat told me it wasn't allowed to define or discuss neoliberalism

[@muyscully]

That podcast voice sounds like Leo Laporte the tech guy

[@dlaci1]

Turn this AI hype off before it is too late. If only there would have been books and movies warning us...

[@SukunaSentMe]

Reporters are wasted of money

[@denniszenanywhere]

So you prefer no more human in news channels?

[@SukunaSentMe]

@@denniszenanywhere yes

[@salookie8000]

They paid to fill time. We just need to pay attention on other things.

[@RubenRabagoRR5]

Wow so cool, can you give the exact name of the Podcast where to listen as well Thnx Brilliant job on AI thnx everyone at CNBC GG

[@AnnaKhait7]

Where is the 10 min clip you said you’d post? Plz post in description. Thanks !

[@MiraPloy]

Literally just go to notebookLM and make a podcast yourself, don't bother with cnbc's output it'll take you like 2 minutes to get your own.

[@rogerstorz2091]

The AI host sounds just like Leo Laporte of This Week in Tech

[@therealsheikh]

It's pretty common now. Nothing eye opening here.

[@chinnpatel]

Imagine covering your job replacement lol

[@LiemNguyen-fh6qk]

How are people ok with this?… allowing companies the rights to usw your recorded voice…. She’s excited to be replaced by her own Ai voices.

[@kunalsingh4418]

They are not always using recorded voices. It's very easy to create new voices, in this case it's a new voice. It would still replace her thou, but that's a different topic.

[@MiraPloy]

It's not her voice? The 2 people in the podcast are probably licensed by google or google employees.

[@xys1]

Thanks D.

[@Bamdira]

That sounds more annoying than normal podcasts. Reminds me of these "Movie Recaps" on youtube.

[@CastleHassall]

"we don't use your data" .. honest guv

[@shrimpdance4761]

There's something robotic about the male AI podcast voice

[@easternfrontagain]

Yes, I’ve been pumping AI podcasts like crazy over the last few days 😂

[@Xius_Games]

NEed different voices for it and more editing tools for it to make it really a game changer. but awesome first draft

[@davidnomis9056]

Ohhh the amount of strikes that Ai will cause😭

[@elsawallenbergesser7914]

Are there no copyright issues with uploading ie school books unto such a tool? Surely the ai will train on whatever is uploaded?

[@thespaceinbetweenx]

Exactly my thoughts

[@superAweber]

I logged into it 2 minutes ago and it says it won't train with your private information. There's a big window at login that says this

[@jumpy2783]

​@@superAweberI think you're missing the point

[@superAweber]

@@jumpy2783 I'm not sure I am. It's the common concern with free AI tools - they might use your data to train the AI.

[@SteveSand]

Is it just me, or do those voices still sound fake? There is still some annotation, tone and pause which human does, and still could not be simulated (yet)

[@sleepnabox]

I just threw away my book on how to communicate.

[@WaqarMuneer]

This is incredible technology. host shouldn't be so worried about yet. AI is not so intuitive as humans are visually, physically and emotionally. But she has to improve her strengths to beat the AI.

[@unionash1]

Deirdre Bosa is 🔥

[@sarankumarnklpsg]

Google is creating AI Ghost.

[@ChandravijayAgrawal]

anchor: eye opening applications me: opening....eye.....open....eye....open....ai 😮😮😮

[@michaelriggs325]

Even the anchor still treat ai like it's not coming down the pipe right now, 5 to 10 years he said, all these people are gonna be out of a job by ai TV anchors soon

[@eSKAone-]

They are real, they are just not human.

[@Ibn_Abdulaziz]

Narrated Abu Sa'eed al-Khudri رضي الله عنه: Allah's Messenger ﷺ said: "There will come a time when the best property of a man will be sheep which he will graze on the tops of mountains and the places where rain falls escaping to protect his religion from Al-Fitan (trials, temptations, afflictions, polytheism, forced apostasy)." [Sahih al-Bukhari » Beginning of Creation - كتاب بدء الخلق » Hadith 3300]

[@anonymousanonym450]

dead internet theory is real

[@leonidas14775]

Licensing your voice? sounds like the plot to Little Mermaid

[@Thomas-fy9yc]

No one owns the voices, copyright a doesn’t apply to voice unless you claim to be that person with the Ai.

[@MikeTorio-dv3fu]

Cat fishing our news ladies

[@virtualvers]

That AI-generated voice sounds like Sal Khan from Khan Academy (Google friends).

[@VoidBringer_98]

Just be aware that while we are helping them to make these things more accurate we are also assisting in making skynet possible 😅 food for thought

[@jmsolorzano13]

One of the best tool at the moment... 🎉

[@mutovkin]

Podcasts, or not, why not allow me to listen to the books I *bought* on Kindle. Even my phone's built in tts engine sounds good, but these new ones sound amazing and can allow for role based book reading where each character has his or her own voice.