Just a heads up, this is episode two of a three part series exploring whether artificial intelligence can make a planet money episode.
Todays episode does make passing mention of a couple of technologies from Apple and Google.
You should know that both of those companies are financial supporters of National Public Radio.
Here is Todays show.
This is Planet Money from NPR.
Here at Planet Money, we have been testing these new artificial intelligence technologies to see how much of our jobs they can actually do.
Last episode, we used tools like chat, GPT, in some moderately complicated ways to write an entire planet money episode.
And that episode is finished.
We have a script.
We are excited for you to hear that podcast.
But if we are really going to take seriously the question of is the AI gonna replace us?
We want it to go all the way.
We needed the computers to also replace our voice to narrate this episode.
And if we were gonna have the computer do the talking, we might as well go big, get the most Planet moneyy voice of all the planet money voices.
I speak, of course, of hello, and.
Welcome to Planet Money.
I'm Robert Smith.
Robert Smith, Planet Money's longest running host, even was the show's editor for a while.
But a couple years ago, he finally hung up the old microphone and left the show as a full time host.
Robert left behind a legacy, but also lots and lots and lots of recordings of his voice.