Falling Out of the Trough into The Valley

In this episode, hosts Ed Bennett and Chris Boyer discuss how GenAI is starting to replicate natural human language in a frightening way, and ponder how quickly it will fall from the Trough of Disillusionment to bridging the Uncanny Valley. They also take NotebookLM for a spin and share some surprising results. 

• Annoyances: AI getting better and the uncanny valley
• Tech rec: NotebookLM and other AI automation within Google
• AI-stump: the hosts reaction to NotebookLM's audio overview of their podcast