Google's NotebookLM AI Podcast Hosts Can Now Talk To You, Too 4
Google's NotebookLM and its podcast-like Audio Overviews are being updated with a new feature that allows listeners to interact with the AI "hosts." Google describes how this feature works in a blog post. The Verge reports: In addition to the interactive Audio Overviews, Google is introducing a new interface for NotebookLM that organizes things into three areas: a "sources" panel for your information, a "chat" panel to talk with an AI chatbot about the sources, and a "studio" panel that lets you make things like Audio Overviews and Study Guides. I think it looks nice.
Google is announcing a NotebookLM subscription, too: NotebookLM Plus. The subscription will give you "five times more Audio Overviews, notebooks, and sources per notebook," let you "customize the style and tone of your notebook responses," let you make shared team notebooks, and will offer "additional privacy and security," Google says. The subscription is available today for businesses, schools and universities, and organizations and enterprise customers. It will be added to Google One AI Premium in "early 2025." Google is also launching "Agentspace," a platform for custom AI agents for enterprises.
Google is announcing a NotebookLM subscription, too: NotebookLM Plus. The subscription will give you "five times more Audio Overviews, notebooks, and sources per notebook," let you "customize the style and tone of your notebook responses," let you make shared team notebooks, and will offer "additional privacy and security," Google says. The subscription is available today for businesses, schools and universities, and organizations and enterprise customers. It will be added to Google One AI Premium in "early 2025." Google is also launching "Agentspace," a platform for custom AI agents for enterprises.
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That's kind of the point -- not having to talk to other people.
This product seems designed to take some of the effort out of organizing and analyzing information, but that effort is important to engaging your brain with topic. Just firehosing documents into an AI and letting it do the work is certainly easier, but it really makes you less relevant. The same goes with interacting with human beings. It's a pain in the ass, but it's necessary if you're going to engage with other people.
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True. Same as having AI doing your "coding" makes you dependent on it and developing advanced skills becomes very hard or impossible. And, in fact, I do interact with people I do not chose regularly: Students. But most of them are reasonably smart and most are willing to listen, and not only because I do decide about their grades. But the last thing I want is some Artificial Idiot to decide who I want to talk to and who I do not. Such a machine can only get it wrong.