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For Scientific American Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feldman.

If you're one of the many folks who eagerly awaits the arrival of Spotify wrapped each December,

you might have noticed something a little extra in this year's drop.

An AI-generated podcast where two people discuss your music preferences and trends.

If you're anything like me, that feature raised some questions for you, like how and why on earth?

Luckily, we already had an episode in the works about Google's new AI audio tool.

Here to tell us all about how it works and what it means is Siam Associate News Editor Alison Partial.

Allison, thanks so much for coming on the pod again. Always a pleasure to have you.

Thanks for having me. Happy to be a friend of the pod or whatever.

So we're talking about AI today. Yes, Rachel. Have you heard of Notebook L.M? I've heard of it. I have not tried it yet,

so my knowledge is limited. Well, the feature that we're going to be talking about today

is specifically its feature that allows you to create instant AI podcasts. Yes. I am familiar and I have a lot of feelings.

Okay. I imagine. I imagine. The tool that it's a part of, Notebook L.M was released last year,

summer of 2023. And it's like this workspace where you can upload a bunch of documents or videos

or links to web pages. And then the model will ingest them,

and then you can kind of interact with it. You can ask it to generate a timeline to summarize

your research to go find a fact for you. And it'll do this by citing its sources in a way that

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