ChatGPT Killed the Radio Star? These AI-Powered Chatbots Can Replace DJs
Taking a page from ChatGPT, a company in Ohio has created an AI-powered DJ that’s designed to read the news, talk about trending social media posts, and crack jokes during song breaks.
Futuri last week launched(Opens in a new window) “RadioGPT,” a system that can help radio stations localize their content to a market and phase out pre-recorded segments for live radio talk from an artificial DJ.
The technology taps OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model, which also powers ChatGPT, an AI-powered program that can generate human-like conversations on any topic. Futuri decided to use GPT-3 to create content from the company’s TopicPulse program, which can quickly identify news and events trending on social media. The generated content is then read outloud using an artificial but human-sounding voice.
Futuri created a demo(Opens in a new window) of RadioGPT, which shows the system using various artificial voices during song breaks. “Anything a radio human can do, I can do better,” the program proudly proclaims at one point.
In the demo, RadioGPT talks about the news and social media topics trending in a city called Springfield. The website(Opens in a new window) for the technology says it can also report the weather, discuss artists being played on the radio station, and hold giveaway prizes to listeners. So it’s not hard to imagine RadioGPT representing a threat to human DJs when OpenAI’s own ChatGPT has sparked concerns about AI programs replacing some white collar work.
”Programming is available for individual dayparts, or Futuri’s RadioGPT can power the entire station,” the company says in the announcement. Futuri also notes the technology could be used to train the technology with "existing personalities’ voices" at a radio
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