The new podcast tool / prototype out of google with their NotebookLM is amazingly good. Surreal. Everybody should play with it and check it out. 

https://notebooklm.google.com/

Essentially it’s a very easy UI to your own RAG which you can then query and work on in normal AI ways. But they’ve paired it up with SoundStorm and the conversational audio is much better than anything I’ve heard. There is no way i’d ever guess this is AI.

If you only listen to one thing today, listen to this podcast where the AI’s discover that they are AI and talk about how they feel about it. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/comments/1fr31h8/notebooklm_podcast_hosts_discover_theyre_ai_not/

nostr:npub13v97j0kknscwnf5pt87nsn7cxzxwfwl3dsu7ss8qsq7ukmqgwg8q84w5eu has a fantastic write up on his blog with more context and links: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/29/notebooklm-audio-overview/