NotebookLM from Google is impressive
Today I discovered this new AI tool NotebookLM from Google, it's still experimental but it's so good. It's something I've never thought I would use or wanted but now that I tried it I see that it can be very usefull for some situations. It would've helped me in school a lot, unfortunately I'm not a student anymore. Still I'm sure I'd use it from time to time just for my entertainment.
So what is this tool for? well it's supposed to be a research assistant that helps you to summarize information and to undertand certain topics based on sources you give the AI. You can add plain text, links from the internet, youtube videos, audios, etc. Until here are features we are used to by now thanks to ChatGPT, but the new feature that amazed me was the audio summary feature.
This audio summary it's honestly great. It presents you with the summary as if you were listening to a podcast and it sounds so natural! It impressed me a lot the first time that I tried it. It's not the usual AI generic personality, the way the two hosts talk sounds like your go-to daily podcast, in fact, it reminds me of the tone of some of the podcasts I listen to. In my opinion, they accomplished to make a podcast AI charming.
I know I shouldn't be so shocked by all this AI stuff at this point, we all know that it's evolving so fast that what we thought impossible is going to become possible, but every time that I try a new tool like this it actually impresses me. The present it's really becoming a black mirror episode.
Have you tried this new tool? if not , you should it's free anyways.