Is The Washington Post’s new AI podcast a hallmark of the future?

The Washington Post‘s new “Your Personal Podcast” offering uses artificial intelligence to customize podcasts for its users. The Washington Post/Screenshot by NPR

The Washington Post/Screenshot by NPR

It’s not your mother’s podcast — or your father’s, or anyone else’s. The Washington Post‘s new offering, “Your Personal Podcast,” uses artificial intelligence to customize podcasts for its users, blending the algorithm you might find in a news feed with the convenience of portable audio.

The podcast is “personalized automatically based on your reading history” of Post articles, the newspaper says on its help page. Listeners also have some control: At the click

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