I am delighted to report that NotebookLM now lets you provide custom instructions when you use it to generate a podcast...
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I am delighted to report that NotebookLM now lets you provide custom instructions when you use it to generate a podcast...
"You are both pelicans who work as data journalist at a pelican news service. Discuss this from the perspective of pelican data journalists, being sure to inject as many pelican related anecdotes as possible"
7m40s audio and transcript here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/17/notebooklm-pelicans/
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Simon Willisonreplied to Simon Willison last edited by
> You ever find yourself wading through mountains of data trying to pluck out the juicy bits? It's like hunting for a single shrimp in a whole kelp forest, am I right?
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> Think of those facial recognition systems they have for humans. We could have something similar for our finned friends. Although, gotta say, the ethical implications of that kind of tech are a whole other kettle of fish. We pelicans gotta use these tools responsibly and be transparent about it.
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Simon Willisonreplied to Simon Willison last edited by
> Imagine a pelican citizen journalist being able to analyze footage of a local council meeting, you know, really hold those pelicans in power accountable, or a pelican historian using video scraping to analyze old film reels, uncovering lost details about our pelican ancestors.
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> The future of data journalism is looking brighter than a school of silversides reflecting the morning sun. [...] There's a whole ocean of data out there just waiting to be explored.
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Jote 🏳️🌈 :verified_gay:replied to Simon Willison last edited by
@simon I'm sad that audio is not several minutes of pelican chaos and noises.
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Simon Willisonreplied to Jote 🏳️🌈 :verified_gay: last edited by
@ailnoth yeah just imagine if this thing could include sound effects!
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@simon curious. Is pelican a recognised/coined term or something new? I tried to search for it, but with little luck. Is there a definition I could possibly read?
By sheer association I assume it’s hinting to catching and holding a lot of fish with its beak. Fish being data in this instance I assume.
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@707Kat as far as I know the only meaning of pelican is this
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@simon haha alright, should I understand your usage of it as such too then?
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Simon Willisonreplied to 707Kat last edited by [email protected]
@707Kat this podcast example was a chance for me to combine three of my interests: pelicans, data journalism and getting weird AI tools to do ridiculous things
