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Jeff Sutherland, the half-mad cofather of scrum, not only is writing his latest book with a heavy involvement of AI, but has also recently started to release an AI-generated podcast based on the chapters of his book.
I did not realise at first that it was AI-generated, and listened to several minutes of an episode believing that I was listening to two real people having a conversation. An utterly inauthentic, scripted, and mildly repulsive conversation; but one that could have been staged by a couple of actors, or better yet, a couple of zealous and creative assistants who were happy to try being actors. I did not catch any unnaturalness in the sound of their voices, their tempo, their timing, or their intonation.
But then I remembered that I had heard something similar in an article discussed on Hacker News several months ago about how someone had taught his young daughter a concept from geology by generating a similar chattering podcast with a cheesy pair of interlocutors.
There are two or perhaps three take-aways from this for me.
First, I hate the style of these podcasts.
Second, I am again profoundly impressed by the AI. If one ignores the embarrassment of the content, the voices sounded perfectly plausible.
Third, Jeff has fallen even lower in my eyes.
I did not realise at first that it was AI-generated, and listened to several minutes of an episode believing that I was listening to two real people having a conversation. An utterly inauthentic, scripted, and mildly repulsive conversation; but one that could have been staged by a couple of actors, or better yet, a couple of zealous and creative assistants who were happy to try being actors. I did not catch any unnaturalness in the sound of their voices, their tempo, their timing, or their intonation.
But then I remembered that I had heard something similar in an article discussed on Hacker News several months ago about how someone had taught his young daughter a concept from geology by generating a similar chattering podcast with a cheesy pair of interlocutors.
There are two or perhaps three take-aways from this for me.
First, I hate the style of these podcasts.
Second, I am again profoundly impressed by the AI. If one ignores the embarrassment of the content, the voices sounded perfectly plausible.
Third, Jeff has fallen even lower in my eyes.