Google Illuminate - Books and papers turned into podcast chats

This is seriously impressive — and super smart. There are so many academic papers on arXiv.org that I'd love to get around to reading, but they're so dense and my attention span so brief... that this is exactly how I might learn best from all this useful content — synthetic podcast discussions!

Would be very suitable for those prefer capturing info through audio! Congrats on the launch, hope to see it can expand to multiple topics in multiple industries, not just CS or tech 🥳

This is cool! Just joined the waitlist. Would love to see if it can churn out podcasts that are 1~2 hours long instead of 3~5 minutes. Is that something that's planned down the line?

This is seriously impressive — and super smart. There are so many academic papers on arXiv.org that I'd love to get around to reading, but they're so dense and my attention span so brief... that this is exactly how I might learn best from all this useful content — synthetic podcast discussions!

For podcasts, I prefer real human conversations. I dislike AI in this context. Anyway, congrats on your launch, Chris!

Yeah Google are super low key about these amazing products for some reason. This and their LLM notebook all deserve more highlight.

GREAT ! Make it public soon please !

This is a fascinating approach to transforming dense academic material into a more engaging format.

Sounds amazing! Can't wait to dive into papers with AI chats. Great job, Google Illuminate team! 🎉

@chrismessina what a brilliant thought process. Awesome tool. The OG product for making academic papers accessible. Kudos to you and team who have made such a brilliant product for us with short attention spans!