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Re:NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surpris... by vietjtnguyen on Monday September 30, 2024 @02:41PM (#41700511)
One of my favorite ChatGPT uses is voice chat during long drives as a pseudo, albeit interactive, podcast to learn about various technical topics at the edge of my knowledge base. This podcast generation is pretty amazing, but hopefully they make the "competency level" of the hosts tunable. One thing I love is being able to guide ChatGPT to the technical level I'm looking for. Maybe I'm just bad at finding podcasts, but only Signals and Threads [1] really has that interesting depth.

[1]: https://signalsandthreads.com/

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Re:NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surpris... by chatmasta on Monday September 30, 2024 @05:54PM (#41702551)
Lex Fridman gets the best guests and asks the worst questions. I’d love to be able to tune up the technical level of those interviews…
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Re:NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surpris... by bob_theslob646 on Monday September 30, 2024 @07:05PM (#41703044)
Could not agree more. Lex seems like a nice guy, but he's the worst interviewer ( I stopped watching him 2 years ago so maybe he has changed for the better )
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Re:NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surpris... by kkotak on Monday September 30, 2024 @08:24PM (#41703497)
Nope. Unfortunately he has veered to far into political slant for everything. Mostly towards the right.
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Re:NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surpris... by convnet on Monday September 30, 2024 @08:28PM (#41703519)
Yeah I stopped listening to him when Covid started and he started spewing misinformation despite having seemingly zero understanding about medicine or biology.
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Re:NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surpris... by hnmelb on Monday September 30, 2024 @08:25PM (#41703507)
I like his questions and interviewing style. It's just enough technical that a semi-technical person can do very well with those.
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Re:NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surpris... by tinyhouse on Monday September 30, 2024 @10:20PM (#41704099)
He improved a lot in my opinion. Most episodes are much better now and I appreciate the great guests and lengthy episodes (not that I have time to listen to a 3 hour episode, I usually listen in bed).

I don't expect him to ask very technical questions. It's not that kind of a podcast and he will lose a lot of listeners if it becomes too technical.

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Re:NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surpris... by iwontberude on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @07:11AM (#41706863)
He’s doing one of those launder shitty people’s reputations by giving them mostly softball interviews like Joe Rogan. It’s trading reputation for cash.
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Re:NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surpris... by iwontberude on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @04:29PM (#41713741)
You can tell because most of his guest have a troubled past they are trying to PR their way around.
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Re:NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surpris... by marviel on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @12:59AM (#41704723)
I've got a product https://reasonote.com which generates podcasts like NotebookLM, and also you interact with the podcast in real-time, so you can regenerate it based on what you're interested in hearing. Working on Whisper input, too!
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