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Google’s NotebookLM had to teach its AI podcast hosts not to act annoyed at humans
NotebookLM's viral AI podcast hosts sounded annoyed at human callers and required "friendliness tuning," Google says.
They were occasionally giving snippy comments to human callers like, “I was getting to that” or “As I was about to say,” which felt “oddly adversarial,” Josh Woodward, VP of Google Labs, explained to TechCrunch. When TechCrunch tried out Interactive Mode, the AI host did not sound annoyed but did express surprise, exclaiming “Woah!” before politely asking the human to chime in. His investigative reporting has led to U.S. government sanctions against four tech companies, including China’s largest AI firm.
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