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#NotebookLM has landed hard and fast in the HE sector this month and will have a serious impact on student learning (the reason we ask students to read things is not because we think that is an efficient method of information upload! Reading is a form of thinking.).

But I am puzzled by this warning. Surely the whole point of NotebookLM is to avoid doing the work which would be needed for single-checking let alone double-checking its answers!

[ThioJoe] uses #NotebookLM to generate an entire podcast including voice audio, not just a script, about a text file containing just the words "shart and fart"
youtu.be/iV6TS7Ww4Ds
The human speech synthesis is highly convincing. How much are you willing to bet #Google #DeepMind trained their #AI model using real podcasts without first asking the creators for permission?
#generativeAI #artificial_intelligence

NotebookLM is super useful if you quickly want to read/comprehend a document in a languange you are totally not familiar with, upload the document in a notebook, you have a summary/overview, can ask questions about it etcetera In my case it did wonders with a russian document but also with a technical book in german.
#notebookLM #AI #languages

I’ve been using #NotebookLM for my grad notes and it’s pretty impressive. The podcasts it produces from your source documents are surprisingly realistic and in-depth. One interesting thing I’ve noticed though, feeding it lecture notes and transcripts on data analysis, is that it often adds cautions about ethical considerations and the need for privacy and regulations to keep people safe.

I… I’m not sure the #AI got the memo that it’s supposed to do big daddy Goog’s bidding and destroy humanity.

Ofcourse @garymarcus was right when he predicted that the top foundation models would encounter diminishing returns and could be in some ways in a dead-end street on the road to "AGI". However current models with current capabilities will still cause a big revolution/disruption. NotebookLM is a good example, that works on basis of Gemini 1.5, not the best model, still the implementation/application made the difference.
#AI #garymarcus #LLM #GoogleGemini #NotebookLM #OpenAI

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@kevinrothrock depends on your use case and a lot of this is vibes-based.

#Claude is great for coding, and allows you to organise your work in “projects” which can have their own custom instructions and documents (similar to #notebookLM minus the podcasts). No web search capability yet.

#ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode is great for language learning, or if you often don’t have your hands free, for example when pushing a stroller. The o1 model is quite useful if you want to brainstorm on a complex issue, you can get similar quality output from Claude, but you have to do several “tree of thought” style prompts with to refine the result.

Using them through third parties like #perplexity or #cursorAI is cheaper, but somehow the results I get are slightly worse. (Likely the API uses different system prompts.)

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*#KI: neue #Google App #NotebookLM begeistert Nutzer*

"Der Podcast mit dem gleichnamigen Titel sorgte im Silicon Valley für Aufsehen. So echt und mitreißend beklagen die beiden ihr Schicksal, so menschlich sind ihre Stimmen und Gedanken. Dabei handelt es sich nur um eine Künstliche Intelligenz...die aus einer Handvoll von Schriftstücken einen Podcast gebaut hat... mit Notebook LM erstellt. Diese erweiterte Funktion der KI-Anwendung von Google gibt es seit wenigen Wochen

flipboard.com/@handelsblatt/sc

handelsblatt.com - Philipp Alvares de Souza Soares · Neues Google-Tool: „Das erste Mal, dass ich instinktiv KI mag“By handelsblatt.com - Philipp Alvares de Souza Soares

If I cared more, and I very much don't, I'd make a compilation of all the creepy affirmation noises #NotebookLM puts in its podcast summaries. Mwehwm, yuhyah, ndah, and my personal favorite, eeee-ihh. Every time someone sends me one of these summaries, these noises are all I listen for. Maybe I'll start making them in my own podcasts and see if anyone notices.