🎧 AI podcast to save your day

Yesterday I stumbled upon some insane AI application that was released 1 month ago (quite outdated by nowadays assessment, isn't it?). What impressed me is that it a) works, b) is free.

You do not need to wait further, I'm talking about NotebookLM.

This tool allows you to upload documents and different kinds of information to the notebook and then chat with it. But this is not new. What is new — it allows you to generate a podcast based on this information!

There are things you need to know:
1. You can upload documents in any language (I tried 🇺🇦), but it will generate podcasts in English.
2. There is only one setup — two hosts: one man and one woman.
3. The podcast is called "Deep dive". The hosts talk about the information you provided and add some other context from the large body of information that was used to teach that LLM. But they focus on the provided content.
4. When there is more content or known external references, the length of the podcast will be about 15 minutes. If there is less — up to 5 minutes.

🛟 Why is this helpful? I see two use cases:
1. In this fun form, you can study documents that you otherwise find boring. Human brains are wired to hear stories, not lists of facts. This "podcast" way will make it much easier for you to understand the gist of the document.
2. For people who are used to consuming information by listening, this instrument just helps to convert one format to another (+ more entertaining one). The quality of voices and their emotions during the talk are already on a high level.

As an example, just listen to the 3 minutes podcast about my write up "Sometimes SE is not coding but orchestration". From my perspective, it catches the sense of the post quite good. What do you think?

Feel free to share your generates podcasts in the comments.