This is Planet Money from NPR.
Hello, and welcome to Planet Money.
I'm Jeff Guo.
And I'm Kenny Malone.
And Jeff, here we are, the big day, the third and final part of our artificial intelligence series.
That's right.
It is the world premiere of the first ever Planet Money episode written entirely by artificial intelligence.
Now, was it a great good idea to see if a computer could do our jobs?
Well, we're about to find out.
Yeah.
So a quick recap of how we got here, at least.
So, in the first part of this series, we used an AI language model to write an entirely new episode of Planet Money.
In the next part of the series, we created a synthetic voice clone of our beloved colleague Robert Smith to help narrate the AI episode.
And then we are ready to pull it all together.
So we had synthetic Robert read his half of the AI script.
The real Kenny read his half of the script.
Yes.
Yes.
We stitched it all together, added a little music, did a little polishing and sound design, and boom, the first ever AI generated planet money episode was finished.
And then we gathered a little test audience.