I am not at all religious, but when I discovered this tool, I wanted to scream, “This is the devil’s work!”
When I played the audio included below for you to my editor, she slacked back, “WHAT KIND OF SORCERY IS THIS?” I’ve worked with her for 10 years, during which time we have slacked back and forth just about every day, and that’s the first all-caps I’ve ever seen from her.
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Later, she shared with me, “This is 100% the most terrifying thing I’ve seen so far in the generative AI race.”
If you are at all interested in artificial intelligence, what I’ve found could shake you up as much as it did us. We may be at a watershed moment.
In this article, I’ll demonstrate a service offered by Google. Please take a few minutes to listen to at least a bit of the two audio clips I’m going to share. I’ll show you how they were created and how to make your own. Then we’ll dive into the earthquake-level implications.
Finally, please join me in the comments below to talk about this. I think we’ll all need to do some processing about what this means.
The Demonstration
What you’re about to hear is a podcast discussion about one of my recent articles.
All I did was paste the text of my article about the too-real VR conversion of 2D images to 3D into Google’s NotebookLM service and click Generate.
Let me be perfectly clear: the “people” in the broadcast are not real. The audio is entirely AI-generated.
The staggering implications
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