[emcai] Podcasts generated using Google's NotebookLM

Wed Oct 2 10:51:42 MDT 2024

Just a first noticing:
There is definitely something with the sequential distribution of "continuers" that is a little off.
That said, this is definitely an interesting tool (thinking about students with dyslexia here).

Kind regards,
Magnus Hamann

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Hi All,

In case you are not aware, the latest AI development from Google provides the ability to generate a podcast-style conversation between two 'individuals' automatically from an uploaded document (e.g. a scientific paper)?  The results are astounding, both in terms of the speech and the dialogue.

Here are two examples I generated based on ...

  *   my recent VIHAR-24 paper on "What Needs to be Known in Order to Perform a Meaningful Scientific Comparison Between Animal Communications and Human Spoken Language<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n5ap5v2hu_ERl2mwewYNP_WzfQSwpw0T/view?usp=share_link>", and
  *   the famous "Chicken Chicken Chicken<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TbrynC1VtJFMbIteWJEj1DAHURCcxDWr/view?usp=share_link>" paper by Doug Zongker.

I wonder how these AI-generated interactions stack-up from a CA perspective?

Best wishes
Roger

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