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There’s this Google product, NotebookLM, where you dump text files into it and you can ask questions to it. they just rolled out a feature to generate a “podcast” based on the source material.
I piped out 100,000 characters of /dev/urandom, encoded it as binary in a text file, titled them all “patent.txt” and gave it to a notebook.
It just goes off the rails and they hallucinate a conspiratorial yap sesh for 10 minutes.
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An update:
Update on the thing. I got it to fully wig out. I gave it a txt file containing nothing but a blank space character and a space for the file name, no file extension. Started yapping about 70% of the global workforce being remote by 2025, citing sources that don’t exist, and the black death in London. One of the cohosts said he’s planning to quit podcasting. Then it tried to take an ad break (resumed immediately but still)It’s spectacular
samhenrigold: There’s this Google product, NotebookLM, where you dump text files into it and you can ask questions to it. they just rolled out a feature to generate a “podcast” based on the source material.
I piped out 100,000 characters of /dev/urandom, encoded it as binary in a text file, titled them all “patent.txt” and gave it to a notebook.
It just goes off the rails and they hallucinate a conspiratorial yap sesh for 10 minutes.27
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That’s clearly not /dev/urandom if it’s just 0s and 1s, or did I miss the point of the files in the end?
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Seriously, this is amazing. It’s going to take me awhile to put it into words, but there is something incredibly magical about what’s happening when the model tries to converse about something indecipherable
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yeah... AI might really threaten democracy and the light of consciousness itself
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i heard casey met his wife at the podcast studio within a virtual machine in a google data center
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This actually sounds like you forced two people to make a podcast about random text files
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If you give gibberish to a random drama/conspiracy podcast and name the file something cryptic they'd probably output similar things
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The fact that the AI podcasters didn’t make an “I see what you did there” joke after “binary 101” is disqualifying and shows why LLMs will never understand dad jokes
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It was almost as if this AI was trying to mimick Odd Lots with and in terms of the cadence
Congrats, you demonstrated the age old expression "garbage in, garbage out"Heres your cookie 🍪
I'm in Chicago for two days this week, and free Friday afternoon. Do I know anyone in Chicago who would like to grab coffee/tea/lunch on Friday?
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FlightAware has a page up tracking the UPS planes loaded with iPhones heading to the US for Friday’s launch.Assuming roughly 300,000 iPhones fit a 747-8F, just one group planes near Alaska was hauling $2,330,200,000 ($2.3 billion) worth of iPhones this morning.
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nailed it here.
New iPhone = new socks
There’s been some (in my opinion, misguided) commentary going around that ‘iPhone cameras are not 48MP’ — the good folks wrote a great nuanced article, and I contributed some thoughts:
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