Google is partnering with authors, researchers, and publications to launch “featured” notebooks within its AI notetaking app, NotebookLM. These notebooks come pre-filled with analysis, and allow you to work together with the app’s instruments, together with its AI podcast maker, to study extra about every subject.
Google began letting customers share their notebooks publicly last month, and this most up-to-date replace seems to be a step towards permitting individuals to discover a spread of premade notebooks reasonably than creating their very own. Greater than 140,000 individuals shared public notebooks previously 4 weeks, in keeping with Google.
“For newcomers to NotebookLM, the notebooks are a preview of how helpful the product might be while you’ve assembled a group of sources for no matter venture you’re engaged on,” Steven Johnson, the editorial director for NotebookLM, writes in a post on X. “But it surely’s additionally a preview of a possible future the place there are literally thousands of expert-curated notebooks on all types of subjects that you would be able to add to your personal assortment, to have the data you want on faucet.”
The featured notebooks embrace unique textual content from the supply materials, whether or not it’s a e-book, play, publication, or on-line article. NotebookLM mechanically summarizes this data and comes pre-loaded with notes in regards to the subjects mentioned within the supply materials. You may also work together with NotebookLM’s AI chatbot to ask questions in regards to the data, in addition to take heed to pre-generated Audio Overviews, the podcast-like discussions that includes AI “hosts.”
Google says it plans on launching new featured notebooks sooner or later, which is able to embrace extra from The Economist and The Atlantic.