Ideas from Mark Stout

 A follow-up to my last post about Google's NotebookLM. Google's developer conference started today.  I watched the keynote and there was a great deal said about AI.   What I thought interesting is they have published a NotebookLM with a lot of data about the conference you can query and summarize in NotebookLM. Sources for the notebook includes a YouTube video of the two hour keynote and a host of articles pertinent to what is happening at IO, the convention. You can access this notebook here .

 Artificial Intelligence is all over the news.  I played with ChatGPT when it first appeared, and I was not impressed.  I also played with Google's NotebookLM.  I was intrigued by it. You could then feed in documents from your Google Drive and then ask questions and it would answer based on what it found in your documents. In the eight months I was away from computers, things changed dramatically.  AI got smarter; and it will continue to evolve. NotebookLM can can now pull in sources from places outside your Google Drive.  For this example, I chose a Wikipedia article and a YouTube article about the Amazon River. It took a few minutes and generated an informative summary of the topic. What was truly amazing was it also generated a podcast about the Amazon, with a man and woman speaking.  Apparently two voices having a conversation are more engaging than one voice lecturing. A link to a video I made showing the demo is at the end of this post. Another g...