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Listen: Google's hidden AI tool turns your text into stunningly lifelike podcasts - for free


I've been studying AI for years, and Google's new AI podcast tool still astonishes me. Seriously, you have to hear this to believe it. But humans will beat the machines in the end. Here's why.

Screenshot by David Gewirtz/ZDNETBecause I previously found it didn't process links to ZDNET articles properly, I just went down to the lower right corner and clicked on Paste Text. Democratization of content creation Transformation of education and knowledge sharing Impact on the creative industry New ethical questions Changing the economics of podcasting So, while some publishers and media aggregators will always go for the cheap solutions, they'll all start to blend together, especially as AI algorithms begin to entrain based on a common, if enormous, block of training data.

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