Google’s curated AI ‘notebooks’ discuss you thru subjects from parenting to Shakespeare

Google is partnering with authors, researchers, and publications to launch “featured” notebooks inside 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 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 variety of premade notebooks slightly than creating their very own. Greater than 140,000 folks shared public notebooks prior to now 4 weeks, in response to Google.

“For newcomers to NotebookLM, the notebooks are a preview of how helpful the product may 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 submit on X. “However it’s additionally a preview of a possible future the place there are literally thousands of expert-curated notebooks on all types of subjects you could add to your individual 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 guide, play, publication, or on-line article. NotebookLM routinely summarizes this info and comes pre-loaded with notes concerning the subjects mentioned within the supply materials. You can too work together with NotebookLM’s AI chatbot to ask questions concerning the info, in addition to hearken 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 embrace extra from The Economist and The Atlantic.