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In this episode, Lou uploads the transcript of the extended introduction of his book, John Brown Speaks (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) to one of Google's AI programs, Notebook LM.  Notebook LM "reads" the introduction and then produces a faux podcast featuring two human-like voices discussing the content of the article. As this experiment shows, AI is a very useful and interesting tool, but it is not without its flaws and biases based on the source and content of its knowledge. Overall, despite some problematic points, this AI podcast episode does a fairly good job of discussing the introduction and at points is quite interesting.  

Additional music: "Ginormous Robots" by Nathan Moore

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