[vietjtnguyen]

One of my favorite ChatGPT uses is voice chat during long drives as a pseudo, albeit interactive, podcast to learn about various technical topics at the edge of my knowledge base. This podcast generation is pretty amazing, but hopefully they make the "competency level" of the hosts tunable. One thing I love is being able to guide ChatGPT to the technical level I'm looking for. Maybe I'm just bad at finding podcasts, but only Signals and Threads [1] really has that interesting depth.

[1]: https://signalsandthreads.com/

[chatmasta]

Lex Fridman gets the best guests and asks the worst questions. I’d love to be able to tune up the technical level of those interviews…

[bob_theslob646]

Could not agree more. Lex seems like a nice guy, but he's the worst interviewer ( I stopped watching him 2 years ago so maybe he has changed for the better )

[kkotak]

Nope. Unfortunately he has veered to far into political slant for everything. Mostly towards the right.

[convnet]

Yeah I stopped listening to him when Covid started and he started spewing misinformation despite having seemingly zero understanding about medicine or biology.

[hnmelb]

I like his questions and interviewing style. It's just enough technical that a semi-technical person can do very well with those.

[tinyhouse]

He improved a lot in my opinion. Most episodes are much better now and I appreciate the great guests and lengthy episodes (not that I have time to listen to a 3 hour episode, I usually listen in bed).

I don't expect him to ask very technical questions. It's not that kind of a podcast and he will lose a lot of listeners if it becomes too technical.

[iwontberude]

He’s doing one of those launder shitty people’s reputations by giving them mostly softball interviews like Joe Rogan. It’s trading reputation for cash.

[iwontberude]

You can tell because most of his guest have a troubled past they are trying to PR their way around.

[marviel]

I've got a product https://reasonote.com which generates podcasts like NotebookLM, and also you interact with the podcast in real-time, so you can regenerate it based on what you're interested in hearing. Working on Whisper input, too!