Google’s ‘NotebookLM’, which may create virtual podcasts with artificial intelligence (AI)-based voice discussions, is attracting attention because it is getting used in various use cases by businesses in addition to students.
VentureBeat reported on the nineteenth (local time) that Google’s NotebookLM app is increasingly getting used by corporations to share research content and knowledge.
NotebookLM relies on Google’s ‘Gemini 1.5’ and might mechanically generate summaries and answer questions on the document content when a user uploads a document. Unlike general chatbots that utilize the vast amount of data on the Web no matter its relevance, NotebookLM focuses only on the document provided.
This feature helps record lecture content and organize it later. For this reason Notebook LM is popular amongst students, nicknamed “study notebook.”
The ‘Audio Overview’ feature added on the eleventh creates two ‘AI hosts’ based on documents uploaded by users and converts them right into a podcast format where they discuss through voice. In the event you upload PDFs, copied text, slides, charts, URLs, etc., the AI hosts will summarize the information, make connections between topics, and joke around.
“We all know that what students are using this product to speed up their learning, understanding, and evaluation is similar thing that professionals try to do,” said Liza Martin, product manager for Notebook LM at Google. “We’ve found that the number of execs using Notebook LM is just as high as, and even higher than, the number of scholars.”
The LM notebook was initially introduced to assist students, but there are increasingly cases of corporations and experts using it to share research content or information.
Businesses are using the NotebookLM as a tool to store and analyze data, and its audio overview feature enables augmented search (RAG) in search queries.
“Notebook LM itself is a RAG tool and advantages from Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro,” Martin said.
Some users even posted on Twitter about how they used the audio overview feature.
User Richard Serotter said he uploaded the code base to know it after which asked LaptopLM to create a podcast using just the code, and the outcomes were amazing.
Jason Nochlin posted last week that he asked me to create a podcast from a shell script he had written on his blog, and it turned out to be a very recent conversation with added nuance, context, and flavor to the unique post.
Ashutosh Shrivastava took the brand new 1X World Mode blog post and put it on his laptop LM, where he created a 13-minute podcast. The podcast goes into great detail in regards to the blog post, with examples and use cases, and he says it’s one of the best AI product Google has ever released.
“That is just the primary of many formats, and in the longer term we are going to offer settings to alter the variety of speakers, the variety of voices used, and the content itself,” said Martin Manager.
“It’s as much as users to work out the best way to use Notebook LM,” he continued, adding that Notebook LM will remain a standalone tool in the meanwhile.
Reporter Park Chan cpark@aitimes.com
