Its the moment everyones been waiting for all year:Spotify Wrappedtime.
Artificial intelligence isnt perfect.
The best example isSpotifys Wrapped AI podcast, which resembles Googles demonstration earlier this year atGoogle I/O.
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The AI-produced podcast starts standard.
It sounds like me and my podcasting partner on an episode ofour show.
First, the hosts highlight the longest day you listened to Spotify during the year.
It picked up on a particularly emotional day when I was listening to hours of sad music.
The AI hosts safely wondered aloud if it was because I was on a road trip that day.
I was crying!)
This is an opportunity where the AI could have scaled back on making assumptions.
Then, the AI hosts read off your most-played artists and songs of the year.
His name is pronounced Yost, but the podcast instead refers to him as juiced.
Its even worse when they take a stab at pronounce the Dutch songs.
Spanish speakers will also find that Googles NotebookLM struggles with the Latin language.
Dont get me started on the butchered pronunciation of ray-gay-ton, which isnothow reggaeton is said out loud.
I would argue that uttering the word with the appropriate intonationisthe genre.
The cringe factor is high with this one.
This leads me to ask: Isnt this something AI should pick up on?
The music is categorized under the language in which it is presented.
I imagine a bot could be programmed to pull in from that data and adjust accordingly.
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