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Podcast Episode 1: Is AI making SaaS obsolete?
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Podcast Episode 1: Is AI making SaaS obsolete?

The future of AI is...making podcasts?

Hello!

I’m not normally a big weekend poster, but I found this new technology to be super interesting, so I wanted to test it out and share the results.

Recently, I wrote about the potential downfall of SaaS companies due to AI. If you didn’t see it, check out this link: Is AI making SaaS obsolete?

This weekend, I stumbled upon an uptick of references for an up-and-coming platform, NotebookLM, which can generate podcasts based on bodies of text. I thought running that article through would be fun, as would seeing how it performed.

If you click play on the pod, you will find an 8-minute AI-generated podcast about the article attached.

  • The intros/flow/outro sounds pretty legit.

  • If you blaze through podcasts like I do, you might enjoy how concise they can be, but you’ll probably also realize how lacking personality the AI can be.

  • The platform has many exciting features, including some prompting that might be fun.

I’m hoping this isn’t the path all podcasts go, but I must admit - it was cool to have something that sounded like two people deep-diving into your writing.

Check it out, and let me know what you think!

Mike Watson

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