Forget chat. AI that can hear, see and click is already here [Video]

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Chatting with an AI chatbot is so 2022. The latest hot AI toys take advantage of multimodal models, which can handle several things at the same time, such as images, audio, and text. 

Exhibit A: Google’s NotebookLM. NotebookLM is a research tool the company launched with little fanfare a year ago. A few weeks ago, Google added an AI podcasting tool called Audio Overview to NotebookLM, which allows users to create podcasts about anything. Add a link to, for example, your LinkedIn profile, and the AI podcast hosts will boost your ego for nine minutes. The feature has become a surprise viral hit. I wrote about all the weird and amazing ways people are using it here. 

To give you a taste, I created a podcast of our 125th-anniversary …