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 be taught extra about every matter.
Google began letting customers share their notebooks publicly final month, and this most up-to-date replace seems to be a step towards permitting folks to discover a spread of premade notebooks fairly than creating their very own. Greater than 140,000 folks shared public notebooks prior to now 4 weeks, in line with Google.
“For newcomers to NotebookLM, the notebooks are a preview of how helpful the product could be once you’ve assembled a set of sources for no matter challenge you’re engaged on,” Steven Johnson, the editorial director for NotebookLM, writes in a post on X. “Nevertheless it’s additionally a preview of a possible future the place there are millions of expert-curated notebooks on all kinds of subjects which you can add to your personal assortment, to have the information you want on faucet.”
The featured notebooks embody unique textual content from the supply materials, whether or not it’s a e-book, play, e-newsletter, or on-line article. NotebookLM mechanically summarizes this info 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 info, 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 can embody extra from The Economist and The Atlantic.