I’ve had a glimpse of how AI will change the world, and it’s filling me with each worry and marvel in equal measure.
The supply of my consternation is Google NotebookLM. NotebookLM takes an article, weblog put up, or internet web page, and with only one click on produces an audio file of a dialog between two folks about it that sounds so pure and practical that there isn’t a manner you’d consider you weren’t listening to 2 actual folks speaking. They discuss with ardour and authority in regards to the topic, sound engaged and and riff off each other in such a pure manner that it takes your breath away. There are even the little sniffs, slight mispronunciations, slurs, and little giggles that every one make it sound utterly human.
This is what occurred. In my spare time I write a weblog about Tai Chi known as the Tai Chi Pocket book. So, having heard about NotebookLM (the ‘pocket book’ within the identify is only a coincidence) I believed I’d throw one in all my Tai Chi articles at it, simply to see what it did.
Creating the audio is simple. It took it a couple of minutes to consider it, however it in a short time generated a .WAV file that I may obtain to my desktop. The audio clip lasted round eight minutes and after I’d listened to it, the world merely wasn’t the identical anymore; I now not had confidence that I may inform what was actual and what wasn’t.
The AI had taken my article and defined the important thing ideas through the ‘presenters’ having a dialog. It had even expanded on it in new and fascinating instructions that I hadn’t considered, drawing analogies about what I used to be saying to different areas of life. The presenters had even launched sensible examples of what I used to be speaking about, and these examples weren’t taken from my article however from their wider information of the topic. And, most significantly, it didn’t get any of it unsuitable.
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The daybreak of the AI-age
Clearly, we’re simply initially of the brand new AI-age in the intervening time, with key gamers comparable to ChatGPT, Gemini and extra just lately Apple Intelligence solely simply getting began. NotebookLM doesn’t have that many choices proper now – you possibly can pace up or decelerate playback and that’s about it – however it gained’t be lengthy earlier than it permits you to select the kind of presenter you need, their accent, their experience, their political leaning, their persona and, as soon as we transfer into AI-generated video as commonplace, how they appear. As I wrote just lately, AI is already being utilized in movies, and we will think about a world the place a film is generated on the fly, with the plot altering to fit your whims.
Sure, it will sound terrifying to some, however motion pictures are already flights of fancy that exist on this planet of the creativeness. It’s when AI intrudes on the true world that I get most involved. I’ve bought a good friend whose daughter is making use of for college proper now, and he tells me that many establishments are saying they don’t require a private assertion anymore as a result of so many are doctored utilizing AI that there’s little level to them.
All of which brings me again to NotebookLM. It will probably already produce a unbelievable podcast out of one in all my articles on the click on of a button, and it looks like we’re on the daybreak of a really large change in the best way media is produced. I am unsure I do know what’s actual anymore, and that is one thing I am simply going to must get used to.
