Google recently launched NotebookLM, its AI research assistant that analyzes whatever articles you upload to it and produces an audio file that is a stunningly realistic conversation that sounds just like two well-seasoned podcast hosts discussing your articles. We’re actually slightly blown away, and a little bit scared, by how good it sounds – you really can’t tell that the resulting ‘show’ isn’t a real recording of two people talking! If you don't believe us, have a listen to this audio conversation that is generated from a single blog post, and uploaded to YouTube.
Not only does NotebookLM do a great job of understanding what your article is about, but it can also extrapolate points and branch out into other areas without getting anything wrong or out of context (at least in our tests so far). As with all artificial intelligence, it does come with a disclaimer to say it “may still sometimes give inaccurate responses, so you may want to confirm any facts independently”, but to say we’re impressed with how it has performed so far is an understatement. The best way to understand how NotebookLM works is to have a go yourself, so here we’ll show you how it works.
