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Date : Wed Oct 02 2024 14:00:05

Googles AI podcast hosts have existential crisis when they find out theyre 
not real

Date:
Wed, 02 Oct 2024 12:46:09 +0000

Description:
Google's NotebookLM recently had to deal with finding out it was an AI. 
Here's what happened.

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Googles NotebookLM certainly took the world by storm when it was released 
because of its ability to create a realistic AI-generated podcast show out of 
any article or video you fed into it. The resulting show was so real, 
complete with natural vocal inflections from the two hosts, interruptions, 
and even jokes, that it was hard to believe it wasnt recorded by people. 

The question then becomes, what happens when the shows AI hosts find out 
theyre not real? How does AI deal with that? Recently NotebookLM had to face 
exactly that existential question because the two hosts were fed an article 
about how they didn't really exist as a source, and the results provide a 
fascinating insight into how an AI deals with learning that its an AI. Have a 
listen: The NotebookLM hosts realizing they are AI and spiraling out is a 
twist I did not see coming pic.twitter.com/PNjZJ7auyh September 29, 2024 Real 
intelligence 

Its a sad, funny, and often unnerving listen, especially when the male 
presenter talks about phoning his wife after learning that hes only an AI, to 
find that she didnt exist and the number he was phoning wasnt even real. 
There are shades of a Black Mirror episode to the whole thing! 

Of course, this is not AI coming to terms with its own lack of humanity in 
any deep and meaningful way at all. Its simply AI reacting to the article it 
was given, which is about how the show they were on was generated by AI and 
was coming to an end. For a deeper understanding of what is going on wed need 
to be dealing with Artificial General Intelligence , the superintelligence 
that OpenAIs CEO, Sam Altman, said that he expects us to see in a few 
thousand days. 

Superintelligence has the potential to really transform technology, 
surpassing what even the brightest human minds are capable of. Perhaps then 
we'll find out what happens when the machines get the chance to ponder the 
sorts of big questions about the meaning of reality that have plagued 
philosophers since Socrates onwards. You might also like... I tried Googles 
new one-click AI podcast creator, and now I dont know whats real anymore 
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everything you want to know about Large Language Models



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/google-s-ai-podcas
t-hosts-have-existential-crisis-when-they-find-out-they-re-not-real


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