Part 4: Listening, Talking, and Singing
Finn Kollerup
Amplifying Innovations, Accelerating Success - Where AI Meets Expertise ??
This is the fourth article in my series on a deep-dive I’ve taken into the innovative use of easy-to-use AI tools to enrich thinking, focus and communication about any topic.
Previous articles in this series:
In this article I will focus on sound - how can I transform my material into a podcast or a song - and how can a free-flowing conversation create insights?
This is the question I am exploring:
How can different off-the shelf AI applications enrich and expand communication, thinking and presentation of the art of combining AI tools to maximise understanding of a subject??
NotebookLM - what does my article sound like?
NotebookLM has quickly become talk of the town in the AI world. At first glance it may seem like a party trick, but it works amazingly well. Google has got a somewhat tainted rep from previous launches, but this one is a smasher. It's a simple yet powerful showcase of what's in store for us. This is how I made the podcast:
You may share your Notebooks as well as the podcast, but there may be some issues with access from this, so instead I downloaded the podcast, used VEED to spiff up the content with subtitles and visuals, saved the Veed file and uploaded it to YouTube.
Listen to and enjoy the podcast here:
This worked out really well, and gave me a good feel for my subject. It also, as I am writing this, sparked the idea of making the podcast again, but based on all the finished articles in this series.
The NotebookLM podcast worked out really well - it did not feel AI'ish at all :-)
Hedy - let's talk about it
Hedy is my newest AI tool. It is founded by Julian Pscheid , and was introduced to me by my friend Jason Breaux . As my old professor always said 'It's not what you know, it's who you know..."
The concept is quite innovative: Hedy listens in on your meetings, and will give you advice after listening for a few minutes. There's a lot of language interpreters out there, I have tried a few of them, and have not been that impressed.
Hedy is different. I like that ii is smartphone-based (just have your phone open, and it will be your silent and clever partner - there may be a Google Glass problem here - remember that? However, it works really well, and as long as you declare it, there shouldn't be a big problem with that.
The way I used it was very simple: I started talking about my project, as a mixture of just talking and reading aloud some of my notes.
After a few minutes, Hedy came out with a great summary, and some really useful action items:
Hedy gave me a ton of awesome advice on how to structure and communicate in my articles - somehow it seemed much more relevant than if I had chatted with Claude or ChatGPT
After the summary, I could chat with Hedy, much the same way as I would do with ChatGPT or Claude. But the advice I got just seemed more spot-on. I think one of the reasons was that I talked. In much the same way that a verbal exchange can give a much better feel for a subject than a written exchange with a chatbot.
One drawback, though - the entire conversations are not easily shareable - hence no assets to share here :-(
Suno - is it a song worth listening to?
Suno is a wonderful tool. My girlfriend Charlotte Rosenberg is not much of an AI enthusiast, but she really got into it with Suno :-) - she has played a lot of live music when she was younger, so this tool really hit something in her :-).
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There a a lot of different settings you can apply - what I did to create a song was this:
Listen to the song here - karaoke style - I didn't realise that hindi doo-wop was a musical style, but what do I know:
Suno has taken multimodality to a new level - and it's a perfect intro, icebreaker or process element in any workshop or meeting.
I use Suno all the time now, and in a similar way as Hedy it does touch some layers and feelings that has not been touched before - both for the creator and the listener
Conclusion
NotebookLM gave me a podcast worth listening to - and this format is definitely one I will use more going forward. You can of course use it for your own stuff, as I have done, but it is also a great way to research and wrapping your head around new subjects. And there's a lot more coming in this arena. If you are like me, downloading, bookmarking and subscribing to a lot of stuff that you never revisit, an impromptu podcast is a great way to spring-clean your digital closet.
Coherence, flow and clarity is the hallmark of any good podcast - and NotebookLM delivers
Hedy was the biggest surprise in this part of my research, and it truly showed me how the strength of interacting with an AI - and much more so than talking to ChatGPT. And it adds a deeper layer than the podcast, because it is so interactive. So if you see me in the streets of Copenhagen in a deep conversation, it's probably me talking to my new-found clever friend Hedy!
Great insights arise from deep conversations - and Hedy is an insightful partner in this field
Suno is just plain fun to work with. And it somehow the most social of the tools in this round. I think it has a lot of potential also in a business setting - but some barriers have to be broken here, maybe because there is a notion that business should not be fun. It should be fun, in my view!
If you're stuck, try to put your stuff into a song - with Suno you can take the opportunity to loosen up a bit
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Look out for the final article in this series, where I will wrap it all up and draw some overall conclusions from this deep dive!
Pioneering AI-Powered Productivity | Founder of Hedy AI
5 个月Wow, what a great use case for Hedy AI. I love seeing how different users find ways to leverage it in ways we haven't envisioned. I'm excited to hear that Hedy is providing you such relevant answers. This reminds me of Andy Abramson suggesting that professors run Hedy during their own lectures to find ways to improve their content. The possibilities are endless ? And thank you to Jason Breaux for recommending Hedy!