Will AI Agents Replace Human Podcast Creators?

But yeah, here we are, another edition of the New Media Show. And you have, you've been playing a little bit too much in AI, my friend. Do we have to disconnect you? And, you know, are you going to become a Borg or, you know, what's happening here?

Well, I guess I'm trying to face reality.

What's reality?

What's brewing out there in the technological sector is something significant. There's a lot of humans that don't want to accept the fact that it's coming and it's happening. But the, the truth of it is out there that there's a huge growing momentum happening in this area of, you know, this development. And we're at a stage right now, you know, in 2025 through 2026. And this is what I wanted to talk about is, you know, what are we seeing today with AI?, right? And it kind of leads us into a certain perspective of what it's doing for us now. But the question gets back into is, well, we get into 2027, 2028, how things could change, right, on this landscape. You know, currently today, AI tools are being used for voice cloning and audio or automatic editing, video editing. You know, AI-driven marketing is kind of starting to happen as well. Social media management. All those kinds of things.

Well, that's been going on for a while.

Well, it is, but AI's coming into it now and making it more intelligent. And then you've got other platforms that are doing a lot of things around video and creating full videos that you were commenting earlier before we came on the show is that we're seeing a lot of AI-generated videos in YouTube. And while that's true, oftentimes those AI-created videos get huge views. So what you're, what you're, what the conflict is here is the fact that there is a certain amount of acceptance of this content that's already in place. Now, if we contrast that with human-created content, it's, it's really not a fair comparison because they're two different forms of art, right? Or two different forms of content.

Please don't call AI-created stuff art at this point.

Well, so creating, saying that AI-created content is somehow bad because it's not human is kind of begging the question. What you have to look at is what's the performance of it, right? And is it working? Certain ones don't because they're just, even though they're AI generated doesn't make them good. It's, it depends on how they're prompted, how they're created, what's the inspiration behind it, because still AI today is really driven by human ideas, right? It's not really good at the creative side quite yet. So you have to really know how to prompt it. And that's what I've been trying to learn is kind of how to make these tools do what I want it to do, right? Or what my vision of it. But oftentimes when I get into these tools and I try different things, it doesn't actually do what I think it should do. Right. So that's the stage that we're at today. You know, will AI make it easier or harder to start and sustain a podcast? You know, That's a very important question.

I think the answer to that is yes. Oh, I think it already is.

Yes. Right. So, you know, there's some good sides that we need to understand and get deeper into, you know, and how does video factor into AI content, right? You know, in podcasting and what's considered a video podcast versus what's just considered a YouTube video, right? And this is the contrast. And you know, and one thing that came up this past week was this increased discussion around Netflix is going to add video podcasts. I don't know if you saw that. Yeah, I saw that news. And that raises all sorts of questions, just like what YouTube did, right? When they added a playlist for podcasts, right? It's like, well, what is a video podcast to Netflix? You know? What is that? Does that have to be original content for them and only available on Netflix because they're a subscription platform? Or does that mean that they're going to open it up as a, a certain amount of content through the Netflix platform will be public, kind of like YouTube, right? So, and it's a subscription or not option. Is that where they're going towards? Because it does raise that bigger question, right?

Well, at least you'll probably get paid over there, guaranteed. I can't imagine putting anything up without getting paid.

That's the argument for the big proprietary platforms having a bigger role in the future of creating content. And that's why I'm increasingly thinking that we're evolving rapidly into a world where we think of everybody as a content creator. You know, podcasting is one way of distributing the content that you make, but there's going to be all these other options and there already are all sorts of options. I'm seeing them in my own trials of all these things is that it's not as simple as it used to be. It's very complex and there's a lot more types of content that you can create now. But the key takeaway for where we are right now is AI is already streamlining the production of content today. And as we move into 2027, 2028, our podcasters gonna kind of, lose their focus on the creative control of the content. And really, as AGI starts to roll out, and there's a lot of people saying that we're gonna have artificial general intelligence that's gonna be available to all of us probably in the 2027, '28 timeframe.

Or late '26, yeah.

Yeah, well, it could be, right? And all this stuff may be on a faster track than maybe we even understand.

So let me back you up and just give you a real world on some stuff that we're doing. I won't talk about completely what we're doing, but we're doing scripts, we're writing scripts. And we're using AI to help us write the scripts. But I had narrative scripts, Todd. Yeah, narrative scripts. But what we've had to do, and I will say this, using the best models that are available right now, I'm still editing 60% of it. It gets the outline close, but the detail of having 20 years of experience and having the knowledge of what the topic is. And I'm adding the color, I guess we'll call it that. I'm adding the color to the outline and cleaning up and deleting stuff.

So are you using your doppelganger for this?

No, no, this is— we're not using— I say As an example, I want to record XYZ and I want to cover A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Write a script that covers these topics and it writes me a script and then I go in and it saves me probably 8 hours in the initial script writing. And then 3 of us combined, I go in it, one of the other, 2 of the other team members go in. And we go through and mold and change this. And then we probably together have about 4 or 5 hours of editing on the script combined. As you know, maybe I spend an hour and a half, the other person spends an hour, the other person spends 45 minutes. But the simple fact that I saved 8 hours in the original outline has allowed us to say, oh, we can do one of these a week.

Well, Todd, that, that's all great and everything, but if you're editing 60% of AI-generated content, you're not finding efficiencies here.

No, I am finding efficiencies because it's helping, but it's not.

Okay. I, it's not actually putting that narrative in your voice is what it—

we're changing it to our voice.

So that was my bigger question about your doppelganger.

Yeah. I understand., but it's not my content that I'm writing. So I really don't have a Blueberry doppelganger yet, per se. No, but you could for each of your customers. Yeah, we could. Well, no, we're not doing this for customers. We're doing this for us.

And— For us, you mean for Blueberry?

For Blueberry, yeah, internally. This is an internal Blueberry project.

So—

Yeah, so— But I—

Go ahead. In your voice could be in Blueberry's voice, right?

Yeah, yeah, it could be, yeah.

And that's the key kind of point about this next evolution that we're coming into. Which is called an agentic kind of AI movement that's happening out there too, is that, you know, these agents can be trained to do certain things. And I do think that over time, these agents are going to be very much trained on who they're representing, right? Who they're working for. And they will be able to write narrative copy in Todd's voice.

That's why I asked you. Well, I already have a doppelganger. Writing in Todd's voice. So I'm already doing that.

You could use it for your podcast.

I could, but it's going to have Todd's voice. It's not going to have— anyway, long story short, like I said, Rob, we're gonna have to unplug you from the board.

Well, I don't want to get unplugged because I know where things are heading.

Well, I'm going to be honest, you know, I firmly believe that this is going to be a wild ride for everyone.

I'm not saying it isn't.

For all industries. Right. For knowledge workers are in dear trouble.

They are. If you're a podcaster and you're not really understanding what's going on here, I think you're at a— you're— oh, you're, you're going to be at a disadvantage over the next couple of years.

Well, you'll— here's the thing where I disagree with you. Hmm. Okay. If you're using this for show prep currently, right? Right now, today, you're probably set up pretty good to help yourself improve and move your show forward if you're using the tools for show prep, questions, topics, etc. But this recorded stuff, and yeah, it's getting views, but I think this comes to a head. So what's the— okay, so what's to prevent the biggest company on earth, Google, what's to prevent them from saying Well, we don't have to pay for these creators. Let's just create 25,000 shows that we will promote that creates every topic that we want using AI and uses the tools to replace. Absolutely, they could replace all creators. Probably fairly likely that they will. So where Do we go as refugees? I think—

well, no, I'm— that's the bigger dilemma around AGI and ASI.

So in the end, things are going to change, no doubt. The question is, how do you harness it to make you stay relevant and have a great show? I think it's very, very simple. Yeah, I think it is simple. You build trust around your voice, your face, your brand, and people will migrate to content and to people that they know are AI-generated. This removes the biases. This removes the centrifuge of trying to brainwash people with specific content. I think I'm very, very confident that the human nature is going to seek out humans. Now, there's going to be people that's going to consume that. They're going to be out there. It already is out there. It's already out there. And people are making a lot of money on YouTube channels with this shit that just drones.

They are. And it's, it's not even that good yet. It's horrible. Get a lot better.

Oh, it's going to get a lot better.

Mm-hmm. And that's the factor that I don't think anybody really knows how this is 100% going to play out.

This is my prediction, right?

This is it. It's going to be— it's going to change a lot of stuff. So this is— change this industry. This is podcasting.

This is what I could predict could happen even for my personal show. I say All right, you've seen the, you know, here's a sample of last 100 episodes. Here's all the metadata that goes, this is the topics I've talked about. Now, today, you go out and find me 25 topics that I like to talk about. And it's going to go out and, you know, hopefully not just going to find a whole bunch of AI stuff, because then it's, this thing could implode upon itself. Because if you feed AI with AI, then when does we, you know, does it, does the model implode? So hopefully it goes out and finds human-written content, which I think today is going to be less and less and less. And then it brings that content in. This is the problem, is if I'm trying to do research as a podcaster, I say, go out and find 25 articles on the stuff I talk about, and it pulls in 25 articles that have been written by AI and it's not real. And then I say, okay, write my, write a show top to bottom from these 25 episodes, and you've got my voice, go ahead and record it.

And you made a qualitative statement there about the content, right, that's being generated, that it's not real. So, you know, you're making a value judgment based on this perception that AI is not real content.

Oh, I'm not saying it's not real. I'm saying it's AI-generated content It doesn't always make it not accurate or real. It has its own biases. It has its own heuristics in it, has its own, what do you call it, imagination. So I think we have to be realistic that probably in the end, the best shows are going to be out there are going to have no AI involvement at all.

I don't know that that's that's necessarily going to play out that way.

Well, we'll see. It's going to be a sad day when the bots are just talking to us and we're listening to bots. You know, I don't want to be—

I don't want to have access to data and information that humans probably can't comprehend. And the speed that these, these agents are going to be able to, to work. And if you, if you look out 2020, even late 2026, 2027, we could be in the era of artificial general intelligence, which means that it's human-level intelligence.

Well, I think in some cases it is almost AGI already, but not in all instances. With certain models, maybe.

Yeah. Right. And how will that change podcast content when the AGI sounds just like a regular human, looks like a regular human, moves like a regular human? If you've been— if these agents are trained on you, right? Trained on Rob Greenlee.

Guess what, Rob? Guess what's gonna happen? I've got the easiest job in the world. Just go create content and I'll just retire and I'll go drink piña coladas on the beach.

Well, that's part of my bigger point is that what does this wind up looking like? Could AGI actually generate better podcasts than humans? I think it's not out of the realm of possibility that it could. Well, good. 'Cause it's able to do deeper research. It's able to also be potentially interactive. I mean, I do talks with ChatGPT right now on my phone, so why couldn't it do that on a live podcast?

Until, well, you should try that. You should do a show where you just talk to your ChatGPT and record it.

Here's the thing. I've done it on this show.

Yeah, that's true. We have done it on this show. So maybe that's an angle for a new show. That's a good idea. But here's the challenge with it. Will everyone buy in?

No, no, they won't. But that's going to be the dividing line, right? It's going to be ones that are wanting to live in the, the human-dominated world, the ones that want to live in the blended AI-human-dominated world, and those that live entirely in the AI world. So I think it's going to be 3 different ways that we see this roll out. And you know what happens when you have agents out there that are AI-generated guests on podcasts?

Oh, I can't wait to hear the first one. I'm sure they—

there's someone's already done one. Specialists in a particular topic. Maybe these agents are— have been highly trained in DNA. DNA research or, you know, all sorts of stuff. And they're able to come onto a podcast and talk very intelligently about the state of the art of whatever topic or genre.

So, so listen to this, and I'm not going to share exactly how it was done. I heard something on a podcast and I said, how did you do that? And he had been recording himself preparing for a presentation. So he said, I recorded myself doing a dry run of my presentation, then uploaded the video/audio to a— I'm not going to say the model— and use a different model to analyze my entire presentation and speaking style. Then I took that feedback, recorded another dry run trying to consciously address the feedback, then did the same thing. Repeated a couple of times, attempted to prove each time. So I thought, well, that's interesting. He's got a coach. He's got a speaking coach. Now, what I would love to have heard was version A and final version and see and make a human determination Was it better? So this is the thing I think is going to happen personally. There's stuff— Rob, don't you know I'm a know-it-all? Don't you know I know everything? Right, right, right. We've all known those people, right?

The know-it-all. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, now you can be a know-it-all, right? You can be because you can have enough stuff to be dangerous. It's like that, that Holiday Inn Or is it Holiday Inn where the guy learned to be, you know, basically, and he's an operating surgeon? I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express or something like that. It was the go— it was the, you know, the joke. If you stayed at Holiday Inn, you somehow become smarter, you know, probably more likely ended up with bedbugs, but who knows, right? But you can get information here that you may not have been able to easily get otherwise. So I think it's going to just improve Here's an individual that was practicing a presentation he was going to do in front of about 500 people. And he— now, most people don't. Do you have you— how many times have you done a dry run through your presentation, Rob?

I've done it a few times over the years.

Okay, a few times over the years. And he took this presentation, got the feedback, did another dry run with the feedback, and repeated a couple more times. 30 minutes. So this took dedication. He ran this thing through 3 times. Now, I thought that was pretty damn smart. Yeah, and I'm sure it'll work because it's surely a very cheap coach. And this is a very, very smart individual. This individual did this is no dummy. I know him personally. He's no dummy. He's a very smart guy in his own right. So if he said I improved, well, you know, you just got your tip of the day, ladies and gentlemen, if you want to improve your podcast. But I'm not giving you the models. I'm being stingy here. On what models did this. But because there's not a lot of models you can upload audio or video to, to actually have analyzed, most of them require a transcript. So if this model actually allows and can understand connotation, this is the kicker.

All right. There are AI platforms out there that can replicate Right.

But if, but if, if we— but if we want something to analyze— Rob, guess what happened yesterday? Dramatic pause. And you say, Todd, what happened yesterday? Okay, if you do that in a transcript, it says, Rob, guess what happened yesterday? You— in the transcript, just— it doesn't mean a bit. A bit. Todd, what happened yesterday? So there, there, the connotation of the dramatic pause is missed in the transcript. So if you have a model, again, a language model that can understand the connotation text and give you improvements to help with your connotation and pacing, holy shit.

Well, that's, that's conversational AI.

Then what do you end up with? The next step is, okay, you heard me record it. Now play it back to me how you think it should be and give that to me in an audio file. And then the next step is give that to me in an audio and video file. So this is what is going to happen. But I'm just hoping that, number one, we have to be able to QA our outputs. So that's the— that's going to— until that is fixed, this thing's going to put something out. You're going to say, oh, don't say that.

You know, well, I'm willing to put something out that maybe some would view as controversial right now, but there's a possibility that platforms will favor AI-created content over human-created.

Yeah, you know why? Don't have to pay them.

Don't have to pay and revenue.

Don't have to pay them. Don't have to pay them.

Well, no, no, no. These could be generated by humans.

Okay.

But again, human creators that are using these tools to create these things, but not actually, those human creators are not actually in the content.

God help us. This is, you know, I, there's a paradigm shift coming. It's not just going to affect, I think it's already here. We're the least amount going to be affected because, you know, the whole economy is going to be disrupted.

Well, I do know one creator that's on YouTube. I was watching his video last night and he told me his, even his current strategy right now, and this guy's full in on AI-generated content and things like that. He does live streams because he feels like that's the only way that he can prove, be out there and prove that he's a human creator.

That makes sense.

For now. Yeah. I even question that. I think that there's going to be a time when AI will do live streams.

You know, your likeness. Yeah, I think humanity will end much sooner than that is possible because of the leap from, you know, whenever we get AGI. And, you know, based on what people are saying, if you listen to the right people, and matter of fact, I'll just tell you, and I've said this on the show before, let me, let me get the podcast you need to— if you're not listening to this show and you are in marketing, and there's very few shows that I give this type of—

you better start learning how to use AI agents.

You need to listen to this show, the artificial intelligence show.

If you're not listening to this show or actually getting into tools and learning how to actually set these up.

No, if you're not listening to this show, Right. And you are in marketing. You— I'm just saying, this is a show to listen to. These guys have got it nailed. The Artificial Intelligence Show. It's the event. It's the trade show that I go to. I've been to twice. It's held by this group. I'd say the year before was better than last year's show. It's not a cheap show to go to an event. It's $1,400 or something like that.

All marketing is gonna be done with AI, probably within a year.

Yeah, I don't think quite a year. Here's the thing, and I'll go back to what Google said.

I've seen some tools talk.

Oh, I know, I'm playing with all these tools. So here's the thing. Who is going to survive are two types. Super creative people that— in this, we're talking about knowledge workers, right? And again, this is next 3 to 5 years. Knowledge workers that have— are super creative, are the, the idea generators, they're going to be fine. Those folks that are super creative and idea generators, coming up with the next business idea, coming up the next marketing plan, They're safe. The subject matter experts that are examining the outputs of what the AI has put out are safe. Everyone else, they're fucked.

Well, so when you say that, Todd, who you're referring to are people that are actually skilled at prompting AI to do—

And are also super creative., right, in knowledge work are safe.

That can create systems and agents.

But I'm not as negative as Google was because they called those people in the middle the thunking, the thunking, creating proposals, creating documentation, all that stuff, the thunking work. But again, I think if you leverage, if you don't think this is a, if you, okay, so this goes for creators too. Yes, this is coming. It does. It's— you have to embrace it. So you better lean into it or you're going to get left behind. All of it.

You better lean in. They have to start somewhere. Where should they be leaning into right now?

Do you think if you're not using ChatGPT on a daily basis and paying $20 a month for that, that's the bare minimum.

Or Google Gemini. Well, or Claude or Gemini.

And I think Claude's fallen behind, so it races back and forth. Yeah, Claude. I think Perplexity is done. I think their model is screwed because of what everyone's doing. I've actually considered jumping to the $200 a month version of ChatGPT. I've actually this close to pulling the trigger to jump and maybe for a month to see if it's— well, they've got a couple of things in there that I want to try.

But again, I tried to create— Todd, I tried to create a full motion 10-minute video in ChatGPT and it has the ability to do that. The problem is, is that if you're not on the pro plan, it doesn't have enough allocated credits to actually do do it at a 1080 resolution. Yeah, but it has that ability right now to generate full audio from a script. Yeah, so if you prompt it to write a video script based on whatever— yeah, I know, asset that you have, it can be a picture, it could be a text, whatever.

Have you used Adobe lately? You know, so, you know, this is all built in, but It— if you're close to retirement, retire and get your retirement and enjoy your life. If you have another 20 years to work, I don't know, it's going to be a— but at the same time, those that use this stuff smartly, in organizations that use this stuff smartly and not completely rely on it those businesses should explode. It's, it's a, it's a completely rely on it, not completely relying because you got to have some common sense here. You gotta have good inputs, good ideas. A shit idea is a shit output.

But if you have good ideas and good people, it is a force multiplier, right? It just brings efficiency to everybody's life.

Oh well, speed and speed, you know.

You know, and I could, could create a society, Todd, of, of all of us not having to work 10-hour days.

Well, you know, I hired an EA recently. Blueberry gave me the, you know, the ability to hire an EA, and it's, it's wonderful. And because I hired a specific type of EA, I, I hired someone that has a bigger degree than me. And hired someone super, super smart. And the task that I have given this EA is very un— it's, it's doing the stuff that I didn't want to do. I didn't want to build churn rate charts. I didn't want to build revenue forecasting charts. I— that to me is like poke me in the eye type of activities, right? So the person I hired, I said, how much are you using AI? And she, you know, give me the list of the 10 tools. And I'm like, cool. I'm like, go forth. And I give the task and the information I'm looking for. And she comes back a couple of days later and I look at the inputs, I look at the outputs and I do, you know, some validation and math and Holy crap. And I'm like, how did you get this? Oh, I use Julius. What is Julius? Went over and looked at the Julius tools she used. I'm like, holy crap, I'm gonna use this for my taxes. You know, and it just, it gives, I have a force multiplier now. And the person that I hired, first of all, very highly educated. Number two, knows how to use these tools. So she's essentially a team of three. In one. She's accomplishing the work of 3 people in 1 person. Yeah. So.

Not creating content though. Yeah, I think what a lot of people don't realize right now that's going on too, and then I'll talk about here in the last couple minutes. Well, we should probably jump through this and I can save what I was gonna say to another episode. But I think as you look at, you know, more than just a couple of years out, you know, 2029, 2030 timeframe.

How can you look that far ahead?

Well, there was a time, Todd, when you— when that was more normal than what we were facing right now. I think it's just because things are accelerating so fast. And I think that's— people do think in year timeframes when it comes to changes, but things may happen a lot faster than even these dates. So once we move into an ASI era, or which is artificial superintelligence, which is beyond AGI, which is artificial general intelligence.

If we get to ASI— ASI is going to be hard, but if we get to ASI—

if we get to ASI, and then tangentially that could be the time frame that we also have quantum computing. So you start combining the power of quantum computing with artificial superintelligence, or they may be the same thing.

So you get to ASI, then we might, you know, we'll be lucky if we don't all get terminated.

Well, that's a bit— yeah, right, right. Because ASI, by its current understanding, which I'm not even sure that any human really understands the full scope of what ASI is capable of doing yet, surpasses human intelligence by I don't know, 1,000 times, 100,000 times, a million times.

Well, then guess what? We will have unlimited energy and all these things.

Right. Because it's going to solve all of the problems of our world.

We'll see.

Boy, Rob Greenlee, we're going to kill us all. What? One of the two things will be the result, right?

You have definitely went all in. I have. And I'm not doubting you to an extent.

Well, yeah.

Well, I think you're a little bit more hopeful that it doesn't turn out quite well. No, I, you know, do we want Would we all not want something that cures cancer?

Sure.

Or creates free energy or creates, you know, interplanetary travel. And then podcasting doesn't mean shit. You know, we're all off to Mars.

I mean, artificial super— I mean, I don't know if you saw the announcement that the test run of a quantum computer solved a math problem. That would have taken a regular supercomputer like a billion years.

But do you know they pulled the plug on that too? I wonder why. Google actually, this is not well known. Not a lot of people even know this. Google got outputs out of their system that scared them so bad they unplugged it and shut it down, canceled the project.

Why?

They didn't cancel quantum computing.

Well, they terminated. Well, they probably just turned it off until they could get control of it.

Right. Well, there's something that hasn't been told, but Google doesn't really back out of anything.

Yeah, I wouldn't expect them to. They're a military contractor.

So, of course. So, you know, something scared them big time. That's why, Rob, remember I told you multiple shows ago, the best job that's going to be in the whole universe is you're going to be paid $1 million a year to sit in a chair next to a data center's cables. And there is going to be some way you will be signaled to chop those cables.

Your sole job was to terminate.

Wire cutters, right? Yeah, well, you know, more than likely it's going to be C4 and the guy pushes the button and blows the whole building. But You know, it could come to that.

Well, that's a pessimist view on that one.

Well, you know, okay, science fiction here. All right, say we have intelligence 1,000 times smarter than us. Why do they need us? Okay, this goes back to The Matrix.

We become the energy pellets. Which I always like to use on this, Todd, is that if the AI wants to build a road and our house happens to be where the road is, You know, yeah, just knock us down and build the road.

Yeah, well, they, you know, they'll grind us up and use us for energy. So again, I don't think it's good. Hope— thank God, you know, I'll be buried dead before this gets to that point.

But, and then we haven't talked about robots, so—

oh yeah, that's, that's a whole nother— I can't wait on this.

I can't wait.

We don't have to— I need someone to clean my house, wash my dishes, and bring me a beer. That's all I want.

Clean the house. See the, the, the AI-driven super intelligent robot doing a live stream.

So, well, that could be fun. That could be, that could be fun one time.

Depends on how, how funny and good he is.

Yeah, Rob, you have, you know, this is all stuff I've known. I'm just glad you finally, you know, kind of dove in, finally caught up. Yeah, yeah. But here's the funny part. I know who we lost during listening to this show. Sorry, Adam, I know you're not here anymore. You know, but there is, you know, all fun and games. The— they, they have already determined that they have, they have indexed and trained on every possible piece of human intelligence already, right? So what do you do with it? Well, and here's the other challenge in that, okay, so This thing could self-collapse because they're going to use a model to train a model.

And it's going to replicate itself. It's going to learn from itself.

Well, if the model provides bad information to the other model, then you have model collapse. So what really is probably going to happen and what we'll see, and this is where agents come in, and we're already seeing this even with ChatGPT, is, let me load it up right here.

So what do you have?

ChatGPT. You have, you've got 7 models now to play with. More than that, isn't there? 1, 2, 3, 4, there's 7 models that you can pick from.

So didn't they just launch in the Pro section? Yeah, there's, there's 7 total. A new model that's called, I think called Deep Research.

Yeah, that is if you pay $200. Right, right. And that's why I was thinking about paying $200. So O3 mini high is great at coding and logic. Hmm. Okay. O3 mini is for advanced reasoning. O1 uses advanced reasoning. ChatGPT 4.0 most— so they're going to have models, specific models, and there will probably be a podcast model someday. Yeah, sounds like a good idea. And So there will be a model for everything. Yeah. And just like your cable TV, they used to charge you for ESPN or still do Disney, you know, HBO, Cinemax, you know, you have to buy all those packages. This $20 price point is not going to last because they're going to say, oh, you want access to the, the coding model. That'll be $500 a month, please. You want access to advanced reasoning? That'll be $500 a month, please. So they're gonna break this out and then we're all gonna go broke because we're gonna have to have 10 models each.

Yeah, I mean, just look at the face of this phone and look at those icons and think each one of those icons could be an AI agent. Right. That does, different tasks for you, not unlike what a robot that lives in your house could be programmed with different—

just don't, just don't give it your credit card number.

Well, of course people are going to give it their credit card number because you have to pay for it.

Sure. Well, no, they're going to give the credit card number and the agent's going to buy an airline ticket to someplace in first class and you're going to be $15,000 out of money on a nonrefundable ticket.

You better be sure that that AI agent knows your intentions.

And knows my constraints for my budget.

Right. I think it'll be smart enough to know that, Todd.

So it's gonna be a fun time, a scary time. I'm kind of glad I'm the age I am.

And yeah, if you're a young person in your 30s right now, you're gonna have quite a ride.

I've had quite the conversation. I've had quite the conversation with my kids. I have, and here's the funny thing too. My daughter's husband is building data centers. He's an electrician and wiring. He's good. He's got a job for life. My daughter has switched the jobs from a knowledge job to a job that is a little bit physical labor. She's good. Plumbers are good. HVAC people are good. The people that pave roads are good. People that build houses, for a while are good. So, you know, a lot of physical labor jobs, the trades, they're going to be good for a long time. Well, you know, they're probably, you know, the robots will come in 10 or 15 years.

But again, you're good for 15 years.

I don't think it's going to be that long. Yeah, we'll see. But again, I think if you're, you're not going to have a robot fix an air conditioner unit. Why not? Okay, that's a stretch. We'll see. We'll see.

We'll see over time. I mean, I agree with the premise of what you're saying is that it's going to be a little bit longer than just normal.

Here's the thing, the government's not going to allow it because the economy will collapse unless there's some—

unless there's some restructuring of the economy.

Well, there has to be advancements made that doesn't that lowers our cost of oil and, you know, or gives us fusion. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Problem is energy. This is going to— I mean, all this is going to just keep huge demands on our grid.

It's amazing how people are talking about nuclear power again and micro reactors too that will be located next to— So when are you— So when are you launching your AI show, Rob?

I don't know. It's a good question. Yeah.

So maybe I should, you know, I've thought about it actually.

Yeah. Well, the final part of this before we get out, okay, I know we're at the bottom here and we've lost everybody already. That's all right. Everybody needs to hear some of this stuff. Unfortunately, it's like, can human podcasters survive this?

It depends if people are going to continue to want to have a human connection. That's how it's going to—

that's the answer to that. Yeah. And, you know, I think it's an honest question. What role does authenticity and personal brand from a human perspective play in this era? And how are we going to distinguish that? Because it's increasingly going to be difficult as people's preferences probably potentially move towards AI content.

Hopefully there's some rules put in place to flag AI content, live content.

It could be one place that we play in for a period of time.

It doesn't matter. It needs, it needs to be flagged if it's AI or not. Yeah, you know, just to protect for the future. But I don't know if they have the courage to do that.

Yeah, I mean, it basically— I mean, I've been hearing like you have too that there, there has been talk about flagging content, but I'm not sure that that plays into the advantage of the platforms.

Well, it plays into the— it— no, it doesn't. But I think Humans, if they want to connect with humans, will demand it. I think there's just going to be— it's already happening. I think there's going to be such an overrun of AI stuff, then do you really trust it? Well, well, do you trust us? That's the next question. You know, do you trust the humans you're listening to too? You know, humans more easily might— you know, my tech show, I have biases in my show, but I say—

I mean, but I state the bias. AI is going to have bias and humans have bias.

Yeah. What's the difference? Yeah. So I guess you can have a Republican Republican bot and a Democrat bot. That should be fun. That should be fun to watch.

That might be entertaining. Or you could have one that plays both sides of the issue.

Yeah, yeah, changes voices midstream and plays devil's advocate.

God, I want to— I'm gonna sound like a Republican when they switch voice.

Yeah, switch voices and sound like same, same thing.

Oh my God, scary.

What's gonna happen, right? So are we crazy, ladies and gentlemen? Are you worried about it too?

That's the question. A conversation that unfortunately for many will continue because it needs to.

Yeah. So meanwhile, meanwhile, I am doing interviews. If you're still here, and Rob will have to have you on at some point, have to figure out what your, your unique added value is to this new programming I'm putting together. What my unique value is? Yeah, yeah, I talk to you every week. I know everything you know. So, you know, you know everything I know too. So you've been doing this so long. So here's, here's the thing. Do you have something you want to share to podcasters? And it's a new show that I'm doing, and it's not a podcasting about podcasting. It's more about getting down in the weeds and talking real stuff, not the BS.

Is it singularly focused just on podcasts? Yeah. Yeah.

Related topics or just creator, podcaster related topics. Okay. Yeah. And it's, you know, it's down in the weeds. If you got something niche you're doing or something like that. Yeah. Let me know. I want to talk to you. I've got, I have sent out invites to people that I know and that I don't know. I want to talk to.

And so I'm, I'm increasingly creating content that is specific, only available on YouTube. So, so that's an aspect of what I'm doing.

I'm not going to go that far and be blasphemous. So, you know, we will, we will equally distribute throughout. Um, but yeah, so if you've got a topic that you think you want to share that podcasters need to hear. It is video and audio, so you do have to come camera ready. Drop me an email, todd@blueberry.com.

You can find me at—

when are you starting this? The first audio episode already dropped. Oh, Paul Collins. What's the name of it? Podcast Insider Extended, or actually Podcast Insider Special Edition. Yeah. Okay, so 1 hour is the length of the show. So you've got to be— you're going to have to be motivated to sit through for an hour, but we don't waste time. We keep the show moving. Anyway, todd@blueberry.com, @geeknews on X, @geeknews, @geeknews.chat on Mastodon. Rob, are we going to be here in 2030? Oh yeah, I'll be here.

Okay, will we be here? Will we be here, both of us doing the show in 2030?

I guess if I'm not dead, Pushing Daisies will probably be here, right? Yeah. I mean, I'll have a rocking chair here and— Oh, okay.

Taking your Geritol. Yes, exactly. Exactly. And I'll have this crazy home studio full of robots.

Full of robots, background, propping you up, giving massage, carrying you around when you can't.

Exactly.

I won't have to really do anything.

Better hope to hit the lotto. I know. Exactly. That's true. So I got to keep pushing on these AI agents so they do all the work for me. Yeah. So anyway, and I can become younger in my content. Oh, there you go. So I can be found on X if you're still on X, which I know a lot of people have exited stage left. On X. So it's, it, and also available on YouTube at Rob Greenlee. So if you want to check out all the different types of content that I'm playing around with over there, you're welcome to check that out. And then I do a live show myself talking about podcast tips on Thursday night at 7:00 PM Eastern, usually. And then I put that as an audio and video podcast so it can be found online. And I'm increasingly playing with that in a variety of different ways with Shorts and all sorts of stuff.

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