Google's new AI podcast tool goes viral

CNBC's Deirdre Bosa joins 'Money Movers' to report on Google's new AI podcast tool making headlines for its realism.

[jw]

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

[CamiloSanchez]

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

[teezy]

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

[selinov]

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

[nxu]

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

[RostyslavKobizsky]

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

[nosam]

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

[ayurdal]

No longer sure that these two reporters are not AI 😮

[AceFlexFitness]

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. 😂😂😂😂

[abhishekshinde]

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

[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.

[DavidGwynnJones]

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

[budmonk]

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.

[VinMan-qlyu]

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.

[randolm]

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.

[FenrirsBite]

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

[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

[wildpants]

"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