I first heard about NotebookLM from Cristina Capretta within the pre-conversation on my podcast and, to be trustworthy, by no means actually thought a lot about it. She shared that this new know-how may take textual content or one thing else and create a conversational podcast between two those that sounded fairly genuine. I most likely didn’t pay a lot consideration to it as a result of it appeared too surreal.
Then I noticed it being shared on social media and thought I might strive it myself.
I uploaded a PDF of a latest electronic mail by which I wrote about a few of my takeaways from Adam Grant’s newest ebook, “Hidden Potential.” With a couple of clicks, a conversational podcast was recorded, and the outcomes blew me away.
Was it excellent? Completely not.
I seen some misattributions within the podcasts immediately, and I’m not positive if it was due to my writing or for a unique motive.
However it was additionally not excellent, which additionally was regarding.
The issues made it really feel considerably genuine, which makes the know-how even scarier, for my part. How straightforward would it not be to control a dialog when it genuinely looks as if two persons are having a dialog?
Though it solely data a dialog between a person and a girl within the English language, know-how immediately is presently the worst will probably be shifting ahead.
Right here is the video (you too can take heed to it on Apple Podcasts and Spotify), the place I introduce the podcast and share some ideas earlier than I share the AI dialog with others:
I did some “App Smashing” with this course of and did the next:
1. Uploaded a doc to NotebookLM.
2. I made a visible video utilizing Pictory.AI (the free model).
3. I took that video and uploaded the audio to CapCut, the place I auto-generated captions (utilizing AI) and did some modifying.
The entire course of took about half-hour to create. Because it was my first time, I do know I’ll get sooner.
I wished to share the podcast not as a result of I believe it’s wonderful however to grasp the right way to put it to use from a learner’s viewpoint and hopefully spark some dialog in class communities.
When ChatGPT first got here out, I posed some questions to contemplate earlier than contemplating the implications of college utilization, and they are often simply tailored for this course of.
1. What are the negatives of this know-how, and what are a few of the potential advantages?
2. How may you utilize this know-how in your private life?
3. How may this enhance alternatives in your skilled work?
4. How may this be utilized in pupil studying?
These questions are in a selected order for a motive.
1. What are the unfavourable and constructive features of this (in that order)? Let’s determine potential obstacles after which see if there are constructive alternatives.
2. Questions two and three have a connection. Do I see the worth of this in my private {and professional} life? If I don’t, why would I ever educate it to college students? If I do, how may I not educate it to college students? We usually tend to share and educate one thing to college students if we see its worth in our personal lives.
3. Then, via your individual studying course of, will we take into account how we be taught it with college students?
Too usually, we wish to bounce to query quantity 4 (How may this be utilized in pupil studying?) with out excited about our personal experiences. By creating this podcast and sharing it with others, I’m going via this course of myself.
Apparently sufficient, as quickly as I completed creating the video, I noticed this TikTok about how AI podcasts suck as a result of we really feel a connection to the individuals making the podcast, not simply the content material.
@thedylanschmidt AI podcasts suck. #ai #podcasts #podcasting #artificialintelligence ♬ authentic sound – Dylan Schmidt
There may be positively some fact to that.
Within the podcasts I usually take heed to, I really feel I do know the particular person or have some connection. The rawness of it and the human connection matter. Possibly AI will be taught to faux that as effectively.
My good friend, AJ Juliani, usually shares the next (paraphrased). I’m not pro-AI or anti-AI (insert any tech), however I’m pro-learning.
I hope that by sharing my very own studying, you’ll determine your individual manner and take into account how we are able to use this know-how to not solely make our lives simpler but in addition make us assume deeper, turn into extra curious, and join to one another on a extra human stage. Does using the sort of know-how do the alternative?
I’ll depart that query to you, or we are able to anticipate our AI Overlords to determine for us. I believe I’ll select the previous.
P.S. This put up was written by me (most likely poorly), and I utilized Grammarly to make it simpler so that you can learn.