There s a New Hit Podcast That Will Blow Your Mind – WSJ

This experimental audio feature released last month by Google is not just some toy or another tantalizing piece of technology with approximately zero practical value. 

It s one of the most compelling and completely flabbergasting demonstrations of AI s potential yet. 

A lot of the feedback we get from users and businesses for AI products is basically: That s cool, but is it useful, and is it easy to use? said Kelly Schaefer, a product director in Google Labs. 

This one is definitely cool, but it s also useful and easy to use. All you need to do is drag a file, drop a link or dump text into a free tool called NotebookLM, which can take any chunk of information and make it an entertaining, accessible conversation. 

Google calls it an audio overview. You would just call it a podcast. 

One of the coolest, most useful parts is that it makes podcasts out of stuff that nobody would ever confuse for scintillating podcast material. 

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