Notebook LM – From Information to insight with Google's AI tool

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This tool by Google Labs could become the next most widely used in a few years. If that has not caught your attention yet, read on for the next 2 minutes. With the overload of information that is around, making sense of it all is the challenge that Notebook LM solves and solves brilliantly! There are so many great features and the convenience of it all is staggering. This is currently available only on the web and is free. Notebook LM uses Gemini 2.0 LLM to do the below and more:

Truly the application for the information age, Notebook LM enables you to synthesize information from many sources of different formats. Audio, video, websites, Google docs & presentations are all valid sources for Notebook LM. Notebook LM aims to reflect how humans actually process information in the current era.

You can even make the notes that you generate using Notebook LM as sources for future documents, which mirrors how your brain synthesizes information in time.

The process of report making has transformed with Notebook LM. Commonly used documents are easily generated with a click of a button. You will have to try it to believe it.

And who says you can only generate text files with notebook LM. You can create actual podcasts in the form of a conversation between two people for you to consume the information on the go. This takes a few minutes to synthesize but the final output is almost indistinguishable from a human-generated podcast. There is not much control of the user on the AI voices that are used though. So, default voices of one male & one female is used.

An interface very similar to ChatGPT can be used to chat with Notebook LM, asking it various questions about its insights. Question suggestions are also provided (Of course!). While ChatGPT answers any questions from its database, Notebook LM restricts itself to the sources added by the user. You can also select & deselect sources while generating a document and Notebook LM will only use the selected sources.

Notebook LM takes