Google's AI-powered NotebookLM is now available to help organize your life

Date:
Sat, 09 Dec 2023 00:00:34 +0000

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NotebookLM is also seeing a performance boost and will host 22 unique
features by next week.

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Googles AI-powered writing assistant, NotebookLM , is leaving its
experimental phase behind and launching as an official service with multiple performance upgrades.

First revealed during I/O 2023 as Project Tailwind , the tools primary
purpose is to help organize your messy notes by creating a summary detailing what you wrote down. It will even highlight important topics plus come up
with several questions to help people gain a better understanding of the material. The big update coinciding with the release is that NotebookLM will now run on Gemini Pro , which the tech giant states is their best [AI] model for handling a wide variety of tasks. It claims the AI model will enhance the services reasoning skills as well as improve its ability to understand the documents it scans.

Whats more, Google took the feedback from NotebookLMs five-month testing period and has added 15 new features aiming to improve the user experience. Highlight features

The company highlights five specific features in its announcement with the first one being a new noteboard space. In this area, youll be able to take quotes from the AI chat or excerpts from your notes and pin them at the top for easier viewing. Next, citations in a response will take you directly to the source, letting you see [a] quote in its original context.

Highlighting text in said source will now suggest two separate actions. You can have the AI instantly summarize the text into a separate note or ask it
to define words or phrases, which can be helpful if the topic is full of
tough concepts. Down at the bottom, users will see a wider array of follow-up actions from suggestions on how to improve your prose to related ideas that you can add to your writing. NotebookLM will also recommend specific formats for your content thatll shape it into an email layout or the outline of a script among other things. (Image credit: Future)

The full list can be found on Google's Help website . Other notable features include an increased word count for sources (they can now be 200,000 words total), the ability to share notebooks with others much like Google Docs, and support for PDFs. Coming soon

There are more updates on the way. Starting on the week of December 11, NotebookLM will gain an additional seven features. They include a Critique function where you can ask the AI for constructive feedback plus a way to combine all your notes into one big page.

NotebookLM is available in the United States only to users ages 18 and up on desktop and mobile devices. When you visit, youll see some examples to help you get started with the service. Its worth mentioning that despite this
being an official launch, Google still regards NotebookLM as experimental technology, so it wont be perfect. No word on if there are plans for an international release although we did ask. This story will be updated at a later time.

While we have you check out Techradar's roundup of the best AI writers for 2023 . You might also like Google Bard's biggest AI upgrade so far sees it close the gap on ChatGPT That mind-blowing Gemini AI demo was staged, Google admits Google Gemini is its most powerful AI brain so far and itll change
the way you use Google



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