“AI #84: Better Than a Podcast” by Zvi

Introduction: Better than a Podcast

Andrej Karpathy continues to be a big fan of NotebookLM, especially its podcast creation feature. There is something deeply alien to me about this proposed way of consuming information, but I probably shouldn’t knock it (too much) until I try it?

Others are fans as well.

Carlos Perez: Google with NotebookLM may have accidentally stumbled upon an entirely new way of interacting with AI. Its original purpose was to summarize literature. But one unexpected benefit is when it's used to talk about your expressions (i.e., conversations or lectures). This is when you discover the insight of multiple interpretations! Don’t just render a summary one time; have it do so several times. You’ll then realize how different interpretations emerge, often in unexpected ways.

Delip Rao gives the engine two words repeated over and over, the AI podcast hosts describe what it [...]

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Outline:

(00:05) Introduction: Better than a Podcast

(03:16) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(04:04) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(09:24) Copyright Confrontation

(10:44) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(14:45) They Took Our Jobs

(19:23) The Art of the Jailbreak

(19:39) Get Involved

(20:00) Introducing

(20:37) OpenAI Dev Day

(34:40) In Other AI News

(38:03) The Mask Comes Off

(55:42) Quiet Speculations

(59:10) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:00:04) The Week in Audio

(01:01:54) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:19:08) Remember Who Marc Andreessen Is

(01:22:35) A Narrow Path

(01:30:36) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:33:45) The Wit and Wisdom of Sam Altman

(01:35:25) The Lighter Side

The original text contained 10 images which were described by AI.

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First published:
October 3rd, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bWrZhfaTD5EDjwkLo/ai-84-better-than-a-podcast

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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