This is not a “real” podcast in the traditional sense of the word. Google has a new Artificial Intelligence tool called Notebook LM that allows users to feed it written data, which it will then turn into a podcast. The voices you hear are completely generated by Google’s language models.
I created the content that went into this ‘podcast’ (see: School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports), but I didn’t decide what the key points or topics would be. This is worth listening to because the AI hosts do a good job of summarizing ~25,000 words from a dozen different articles. It’s also mind blowing how natural most of the conversation sounds. There aren’t any hallucinations where the AI makes up info because everything comes from my writing.
Please leave comments and let me know what you think.
David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.
Bonus Pod: Google's experimental AI summarizes my recent articles