AsGoogle continues to develop AIfeatures for its existing products and services, it’s also expanding upon its collection of AI tools. One that has been in the works is NotebookLM, previously called Project Tailwind. Google gave us a sneak peak at the machine learning tool during I/O 2023, showing off its ability to create detailed summaries. Now, NotebookLM has officially rolled out.
Google announcedon its blog that the experimental product featured in Labsis now availablefor US users ages 18 and older, no beta signup needed. NotebookLM is being billed as a personalized AI collaborator by the tech giant. Some of its skills are as basic as note-taking and curation, and it can handle more than just a few tasks at once — if you need to pivot from writing to project creation during work, for instance, NotebookLM can help you curate your content into a different format. Instead of having to type out all of the details again in a presentation slide, the tool could help you reformat your work via AI.
NotebookLM is based on Google’s Gemini Pro, its AI model created for scaling different types of tasks. Generally speaking, variants of Gemini are already featured in several Google products and services, such as Pixel phones and Bard. The company has noted that it is also experimenting with using it in everything from Search to Chrome.
Even if you haven’t started using any AI features or services, it’s hard to argue with the benefits that they can deliver. Everyone from college students to working professionals can gain from saving time and boosting productivity with AI. This isn’t to say that the concerns surrounding privacy and security aren’t unfounded. However, it’s difficult to determine the actual impact of AI, as it’s still in its infancy. Tools like NotebookLM could be some of the first to give us a better idea of that — and Google likely wants to make sure you remember the company behind such products.
