Is GenAI The New Powerpoint?

People are getting excited about the power of generative AI to create new kinds of presentations.

As we reported a few weeks ago, PDF-to-podcast is one of the hottest applications of new LLM models.

What’s most thrilling, to many new users, is the ability of the program to generate real-sounding human voices that aren’t attached to real people. In other words, there aren’t any real actual podcasters on the other side of the microphone. It’s all generated through the power of those generative processes that we’ve recently learned to use, all based on that principle of learned originality – in other words, the ability of programs to look at a wide body of work and then synthesize something new.

But they laugh, and joke, and clown around, just like real podcasters! We heard about this phenomenon from Will.i.am at an event earlier this year, as he pioneered this kind of thing on his show with his digital co-host, Fiona. But now that technology is going public.

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