Ideas from Mark Stout

 I was telling someone tonight about NotebookLM and suggested they check out my video on it. I just realized it is a bit buried it in an old post  about AI, so wanted to surface the video here.

  They say as you get older, two things are the first to go. Memory is one of them. I forget what the other is. Forgive the dad joke, but none of us remember everything, and age only makes it worse. I have a series of tools and strategies to help remember important things. And me, being me, they involve technology. After my medical, err let’s call it a medical “sabbatical”, of 2024, I see a lot of doctors. I’m doing okay, there are just things to keep an eye on. I have taken to asking doctors if I may audio record my appointments. Only one has refused. Once I have the recording, I bring up Google’s  Gemini  AI. You do not even have to write a prompt. Just attach the audio file with the + button, and then hit the Play button triangle to have it run. It will create as summary of the conversation. I pay $20 a month for Gemini Pro, I tested it with the free version, and it would not accept a nine minute long recording for processing. The paid Pro version did. Otter.ai  i...