Google NotebookLM Just Changed Note-taking Forever
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Published 2024-04-10
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Google has released a new platform called NotebookLM that may change how you do research, take notes, and organize everything online.
NotebookLM lets you read, take notes, ask questions, organize your ideas, and much more -- all with the power of Google AI helping you at every step of the way.
NotbeookLM is powered by Google's latest AI model Gemini.
You can access NotebookLM with a free Google account. notebooklm.google.com/
It will be limited to user outside of the U.S. but check for yourself to see if it’s available to you.
To start using NotebookLM, first, we need to create a notebook. A notebook is where I’ll store everything related to one topic that I’m researching. In this case, I’m working on a course for another AI tool called Microsoft Copilot, so I’ll store all my research in one page.
Then, you need to add a source. The source can be documented in your Google Drive, PDFs, text files, or copied text.
You can add 20 different documents from Drive, each containing 200,000 words.
Once you add one or more sources, you can use the chat box and prompt it to interact with your sources.
With each chat, you can choose to pin the chat to keep track of all your conversations.
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Perfect. It's like getting an assistant to read all those documents, and asking the person a query, instead of you reading your own materials -- pretty much what a lawyer does to their paralegals.
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The problem is Google's dark history of abandoning tools. That's the problem of upload tools. Much rather have a local tool, local data, even ignoring all privacy concerns...
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As a Notes freak, I loved this news. I'll try it out.
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this is the best productivity hack for me for this year, thanks!!!
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Very interesting! Will definitely will be following this closely. Thanks for sharing.
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NotebookLM corpus is still essentially the web. For example, you can ask a totally unrelated question to your sources and it will still produce a coherent response. (Using the lightbulb provided example, I asked about making a dairy-free cake). When asking NotebookLM directly if their corpus is beyond the attached sources, the response is yes. When asking if hallucinations are still possible, the response is yes and the LM will pull data from beyond the attached sources
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Very cool idea, I’ll check it out. Notice selecting specific sources can help reduce hallucinations, but it won't eliminate them completely, as the AI's underlying model still plays a role.
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It absolutely still can hallucinate. The underlying LLM is still trained on the web. This is just a compression layer to focus a prompt response.
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I love this idea. It's like an LLM with memory which is what chatGPT is doing right now. I see there are many privacy concerns here, but web APIs are a platform-independent way of making apps these days and I don't think the future is making apps on a specific platform for everything to be local anymore, unfortunately (or at least give it the guise of being so).
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I tried to use this to find a relationship between two historical documents. The result was a spinning icon for over an hour. Same documents, same prompt to chatGPT 4, response was fast and very insightful. Still seems to have a long way to go before it can compete.
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And as it’s still labeled ‘experiment’ and not available within the Workplace offering, I guess it’s a great tool for training Gemini, too 😉 But then again, as it’s just available within the US the training data is feeding the (cultural) bias of the model.
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This is fantastic. I can't wait for it to come to my country. I wonder if it can somehow be integrated with Keep.
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I actually just tried this for my daily work journal I keep and dam it’s actually pretty impressive.
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You have your own pkm database or something like that. Neat!
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Amazing!
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Integrating NotebookLM with Google Scholar can streamline the process of gathering academic insights and industry trends, giving you a competitive edge in your business strategy. Keep it concise and focused for maximum efficiency.
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Great video. It needs a feature to read PDF files stored on my Google Drive
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would be awesome if it could also take sources as audio.. for like recording lectures and making notes from that
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Thank you!!!!
