Over the last ~2 hours I curated a new Podcast of 10 episodes called "Histories of Mysteries". Find it up on Spotify here:

https://open.spotify.com/show/3K4LRyMCP44kBbiOziwJjb?si=432a337c28f14d97…

10 episodes of this season are:

Ep 1: The Lost City of Atlantis

Ep 2: Baghdad battery

Ep 3: The Roanoke Colony

Ep 4: The Antikythera Mechanism

Ep 5: Voynich Manuscript

Ep 6: Late Bronze Age collapse

Ep 7: Wow! signal

Ep 8: Mary Celeste

Ep 9: Göbekli Tepe

Ep 10: LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor

Process:

- I researched cool topics using ChatGPT, Claude, Google

- I linked NotebookLM to the Wikipedia entry of each topic and generated the podcast audio

- I used NotebookLM to also write the podcast/episode descriptions.

- Ideogram to create all digital art for the episodes and the podcast itself

- Spotify to upload and host the podcast

I did this as an exploration of the space of possibility unlocked by generative AI, and the leverage afforded by the use of AI. The fact that I can, as a single person in 2 hours, curate (not create, but curate) a podcast is I think kind of incredible. I also completely understand and acknowledge the potential and immediate critique here, of AI generated slop taking over the internet. I guess - have a listen to the podcast when you go for walk/drive next time and see what you think.

Source: x.com/karpathy/status/1841594123381571863