Authors & AI Series
Episode 7: Not Your Usual Words to Write By: The AI Podcasting Challenge!
Is nothing sacred? After exploring how AI might steal our writing jobs, we’re now testing whether these digital usurpers can replicate our podcasting chemistry too. Google’s NotebookLM claims to transform documents into conversations between virtual “hosts,” setting up the perfect showdown with our human-led book discussion format.
For this AI vs. human battle royale, we revisit our podcast roots with James Gardner’s “The Art of Fiction,” specifically tackling that mind-exploding (and not in a good way) final chapter on plot. With words like “profluence” and “picaresque” not to mentions some painfully retrograde sexual politics, this chapter is a doozy.
Listen as we compare the artificial hosts’ takes with our own snarky comments (er…insights) and decide for yourself: can cold, calculating algorithms somehow make Gardner’s impenetrable prose not just comprehensible, but actually entertaining? (Spoiler: the results will surprise you.)
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Not Your Usual Words to Write By: The AI Podcasting Challenge
Authors & AI SeriesEpisode 7: Not Your Usual Words to Write By: The AI Podcasting Challenge! Is nothing sacred? After exploring how AI might steal our writing jobs, we’re...