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Using ChatGPT for Podcast Suggestions

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Re: Using ChatGPT for Podcast Suggestions

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Post by Filligree »

slily wrote: post #3

Not very interesting. These are all very popular, Americanocentric, and "mass appeal" shows, nothing that indicates specificity in recommendations. Which is in line with expectations for GPT-3.5/4.

I’m not familiar with any of them, so it might have been useful to me… if this were the sort of podcast I listened to.

But while you’re looking at that. How does it compare to the list he handed the bot?

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Post by diggan »

smlavine wrote: post #2

How many of these suggestions actually exist?

Most of the URLs respond with HTTP status 200, the few that didn't:

http://www.richroll.com/category/podcast/feed/: 302

http://moneyguyshow.libsyn.com/rss: 301

https://www.codingblocks.net/podcast-feed.xml: 403

Seems good enough for a first pass at least.

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

Filligree wrote: post #4
slily wrote: post #3

Not very interesting. These are all very popular, Americanocentric, and "mass appeal" shows, nothing that indicates specificity in recommendations. Which is in line with expectations for GPT-3.5/4.

I’m not familiar with any of them, so it might have been useful to me… if this were the sort of podcast I listened to. But while you’re looking at that. How does it compare to the list he handed the bot?

Interesting. Maybe not Reply All but I would expect most Americans to know about Joe Rogan’s podcast if not what it’s called. He is absolutely massive in the States, and last time I checked his podcast was the biggest in the world.

OP’s topics lean more tech and programming related. Reply All is kind of a tech show but as the description implies it’s more of a society show centered around tech topics. It’s also, as grandparent implies, one of the biggest and more mainstream tech ancillary podcasts. It is quite good by the way, if you’ve never listened to it.

I would have wanted more technical and deep cuts based on my recommendations

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Post by silentdanni »

I've actually been having much better luck finding recommendations with Gemini. I have been able to find some nice niche podcasts that I would not have found otherwise. ChatGPT's recommendations have not been particularly great and it feels harder to steer the suggestions in a given direction.

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Post by bigyikes »

I’m less interested in GPT’s suggestions, which are generic and well-known, and more interested in the author’s own list of podcasts. It looks like a lot of coding content? What do they talk about in podcasts like these? I can’t imagine taking in software information in anything other than written form. I do like the occasional podcast on AI news, so I guess I can relate a bit?
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