The note taking app (I wonder a bit about the necessity and utility of this feature in the first place) introduced by Google this past year has an experimental mode that will generate a podcast hosted by a pair
of interlocutors which will summarise one’s project and research material and help one brainstorm and make connections through “banter and back and forth,” with documents and sketch that one primes and prompts it with. At first I thought I wouldn’t subscribe to such an idea (
no one asked for this, artificial intelligence should solve our big problems rather that make them more granular) given the limits of triangulation and the recourse to
standard essay-structure of generative text but maybe this Audio Overview has some potential for reflection and insight, especially if one could tweak the hosts to the style of their favoured podcasters (to steer away from the doctrinaire and outright propaganda) and be consistent over several iterations.
