You Can Now Ask Questions During Google’s AI Podcasts [Video]

Google’s NotebookLM AI podcast tool recently got launched into the mainstream thanks to a collaboration with Spotify Wrapped, but after a recent update, it’s suddenly much more interactive. Now, instead of just sitting back and listening, you can actually join in on the conversation. 

According to Google, NotebookLM users have already generated “more than 350 years worth of Audio Overviews,” which essentially take uploaded documents and turn them into AI-hosted two-way conversations to help make them easier to digest. The idea is that you could submit a 50-page long research white paper, for example, and the podcast would give you a quick breakdown that you could listen to while doing other things.

Maybe it’s because Google uses the same voices for every audio overview, but in my experience, they usually sound eerily similar to a real back and forth, if not without some jankor robotic stiffness. That said, for a tool that’s supposed to …