AI is simply going to change everything. Right now, it is a bad as it is ever going to be, and today, it is already amazing in what it can do.
So I recently stumbled upon NotebookLM, which is really just an AI by Google designed to help students learn. One option they offer to help with learning is to taking all the "sources" it is given about a the topic to be studied and outputting a two-host podcast discussion of the topic. You can see where listening to a couple of "people" discuss symbolism in Moby Dick (sorry, old English teacher here) might help a kid understand the topic a bit better.
So yesterday, I took a number of authoritative sources on the topic of SC BBQ hash and dropped them into NotebookLM's source directory. These included videos and articles by Southern Living BBQ Editor Robert Moss, former Post and Courier Food Editor Hanna Raskin, Dr. Howard Conyers, and well....little ole' me. What came out in the click of a button -- literally -- was pretty unbelievable.
It was on par with say an NPR-level discussion. You know, sort of a national broadcast on a topic that is likely not to say everything right as far as those who live/breathe the subject are concerned, but it still offers a pretty good overview. Not unlike, say, Rivals national guys discussing the intricacies of Clemson football. The content is there and it's generally on target, but misses some of the nuance.
Anyway, if you'd like to give it a listen, here it is.
So I recently stumbled upon NotebookLM, which is really just an AI by Google designed to help students learn. One option they offer to help with learning is to taking all the "sources" it is given about a the topic to be studied and outputting a two-host podcast discussion of the topic. You can see where listening to a couple of "people" discuss symbolism in Moby Dick (sorry, old English teacher here) might help a kid understand the topic a bit better.
So yesterday, I took a number of authoritative sources on the topic of SC BBQ hash and dropped them into NotebookLM's source directory. These included videos and articles by Southern Living BBQ Editor Robert Moss, former Post and Courier Food Editor Hanna Raskin, Dr. Howard Conyers, and well....little ole' me. What came out in the click of a button -- literally -- was pretty unbelievable.
It was on par with say an NPR-level discussion. You know, sort of a national broadcast on a topic that is likely not to say everything right as far as those who live/breathe the subject are concerned, but it still offers a pretty good overview. Not unlike, say, Rivals national guys discussing the intricacies of Clemson football. The content is there and it's generally on target, but misses some of the nuance.
Anyway, if you'd like to give it a listen, here it is.
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