Thoughts from Empirics Asia's founder, whose team just released the world's first podcast produced and run entirely by a machine learning artificial intelligence
"Listening to an AI talk about art is really interesting," quips lawyer, entrepreneur and investor Melvin Poh, founder of open access knowledge sharing platform Empirics Asia. "Definitely something to cross off on the bucket list in 2021."
If you too are curious to hear an artificial intelligence (AI) discuss the science of happiness, mental health in a pandemic or the 'freemium' economy, the Empirics Podcast is one for your playlist. Launched this year, the Empirics Podcast is the world's first podcast show prepared, produced and hosted entirely without human intervention by a proprietary machine learning AI developed by Empirics Asia.
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As a student at Harvard University years ago, Poh founded The Asian Entrepreneur, a business publication that eventually expanded into the crowdsourced knowledge portal known today as Empirics Asia. The AI behind Empirics Podcast was initially built and trained to filter and manage crowdsourced articles and insights from over a thousand contributors around the world on the Empirics Asia platform.
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Six months ago, Poh and his team acquired the necessary funding to develop it further; training an AI already familiar with the platform's curated content to take the next step and create short podcast episodes with the help of sophisticated narration software.
But can AI truly curate audio content meaningfully? Is there validity to the fear that AI could one day replace humans in content creation? Poh sheds light on these questions in the following Q&A.