Google’s Curated Ai ‘notebooks’ Talk You Through Topics From Parenting To Shakespeare

Google is launching 8 featured notebooks to start, pinch much to come.

Google is partnering pinch authors, researchers, and publications to motorboat “featured” notebooks wrong its AI note-taking app, NotebookLM. These notebooks travel prefilled pinch investigation and fto you interact pinch nan app’s tools, including its AI podcast maker, to study much astir each topic.

Google has released 8 featured notebooks to start, including 1 focused connected longevity from Super Agers writer Eric Topol, different centered astir parenting advice from Jacqueline Nesi’s Substack newsletter, “Techno Sapiens,” and a notebook connected nan complete works of Shakespeare. It besides collaborated with The Atlantic and The Economist to motorboat featured notebooks.

Google started letting users stock their notebooks publically past month, and this astir caller update appears to beryllium a measurement toward allowing group to research a scope of premade notebooks alternatively than creating their own. More than 140,000 group shared nationalist notebooks successful nan past 4 weeks, according to Google.

“For newcomers to NotebookLM, nan notebooks are a preview of really useful nan merchandise tin beryllium erstwhile you’ve assembled a postulation of sources for immoderate task you’re moving on,” Steven Johnson, nan editorial head for NotebookLM, writes successful a station connected X. “But it’s besides a preview of a imaginable early wherever location are thousands of expert-curated notebooks connected each sorts of topics that you tin adhd to your ain collection, to person nan knowledge you request connected tap.”

The featured notebooks see original matter from nan root material, whether it’s a book, play, newsletter, aliases online article. NotebookLM automatically summarizes this accusation and comes preloaded pinch notes astir nan topics discussed successful nan root material. You tin besides interact pinch NotebookLM’s AI chatbot to inquire questions astir nan information, arsenic good arsenic perceive to pregenerated Audio Overviews, nan podcast-like discussions featuring AI “hosts.”

Google says it plans connected launching caller featured notebooks successful nan future, which will see much from The Economist and The Atlantic.