I used an AI tool to automatically create podcast from the old CoH manual. It's quite mind blowing

[Heliopause]

I used this new AI tool called NotebookLLM to automatically generate a podcast based on the old City of Heroes manual.  Some of the info is out of date and there are a few hallucinations here and there but it is truly mind blowing.  Take a listen in the link below. 

 

EDIT:  DOH! discovered you have to have a general Google account to access it, but of course they did that.

 

Amazing AI generated City of Heroes podcast

Edited September 29, 2024 by Heliopause

[Doomguide2005]

     My wife and I have dubbed "them" Paul and Kelly (the two voices the AI uses to mimick a pair of Podcasters).  She's been following all things closely for over a year now.  She's worked with NotebookLLM since its release.  It can be quite entertaining feeding them stuff and watching the responses.

[Andreah]

This is an awesome tool. Imperfect, sure, but still Awesome.

[Andreah]

Try taking your character description and/or any stories you have written about them and having it create a podcast.

[BlackSpectre]

wow

 

[Ukase]

Wait - these voices are AI? That's pretty cool. 

[Hardship]

That is very interesting. Thanks for sharing it.

 

-H

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

It's a neat little tool... though being someone who works in this space, it's worryingly good. Previously, when we've been looking for scammy auto-generated audio, it's been garbage, music clips, static, or recycled clips from other shows, all of which are relatively easy to detect.

 

Having tried it on a couple of colleagues, this is... not easy, unless you know about the topic at hand. Even then, if the machine learning bit had more material to work with than a single source, it might be able to create a better summarisation to work from.

Edited October 7, 2024 by ThaOGDreamWeaver

[Crystal Dragon]

On 9/29/2024 at 12:56 PM, Heliopause said:

I used this new AI tool called NotebookLLM to automatically generate a podcast based on the old City of Heroes manual.  Some of the info is out of date and there are a few hallucinations here and there but it is truly mind blowing.  Take a listen in the link below. 

 

EDIT:  DOH! discovered you have to have a general Google account to access it, but of course they did that.

 

Amazing AI generated City of Heroes podcast

Seriously, this is pretty awesome. Might have given me an idea for something to try out. Only downside, it's a serious net hog to load up (Kicked me out of game, and off the net for about fifteen minutes to just load it up to give it a full listen!)

[Andreah]

The NotebookLM tool has been released out of experimental, and has had some changes.

 

For example, you can now tell it what to focus on in the podcast it produces. SO, you can give it a bunch of links to HC Wiki pages that are relevant, and then include your character's short bio, and tell it to describe your character and how they fit into the setting, and it will do that. Before, if the reference material was much more voluminous than your character bio, it would just talk about the setting and not your character.

[Triumphant]

I follow Wes Roth's Youtube, so I had actually seen this before (well, a different podcast, but still).  It's certainly impressive in the scope of what can be done with it.  A.I.  still has a lot of gaps and flaws that need to be corrected for, but once (if?) they solve things like hallucinations and what not, it's going to transform society.  Of course, those changes are likely to both bad and good, as is the case with all new technologies.  Let us hope the changes are less of the former and more of the latter.  

[Kyksie]

Given that it mentions bases with workshops and defensive turrets, I'm guessing you used the City of Villains manual?

[Andreah]

There may be some spoilers about Arachnos and Tarantula Spider Number 204 in this post.

 

I exported a set of lore-related categories of Wiki pages from the HC wiki and imported them into NotebookLM. It's very useful as an AI-empowered lore search and explainer, and also helps me with understanding how my character (and story npc's) can fit into the existing lore of the game.

 

There's more of the timeline that I didn't clip. 

 

I also asked it this, and I think it did a pretty good job.

 

I can ask it to go into greater depth about specific topics, too. 

 

I then asked it to tell me more about Number 204.

 

I checked a few of the citations it gave, and they were pretty accurate. 

 

I saw its mention of "Black Widows" earlier, and asked it about that.

 

 

What it doesn't have is meta-information about the sources themselves. One of which is the old "Coh Writer's Bible", which I imported in. That document I presume is pretty old and has some dated nomenclature.

 

Overall, it's like having a lore expert on call, anytime I'm curious about something.