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NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective

Audio Overview is a fun new feature of Google’s NotebookLM which is getting a lot of attention right now. It generates a one-off custom podcast against content you provide, where …

Thomas Wolf suggested “paste the url of your website/linkedin/bio in Google’s NotebookLM to get 8 min of realistically sounding deep congratulations for your life and achievements from a duo of podcast experts”. I couldn’t resist giving that a go, so I gave it the URLs to my about page and my Twenty years of my blog post and got back this 10m45s episode( transcript), which was so complimentary it made my British toes curl with embarrassment. Also interesting: this 35 minute segment from the NYTimes Hard Fork podcast where Kevin Roose and Casey Newton interview Google’s Steven Johnson about what the system can do and some details of how it works:

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