Everyone in the US can now download Google‘s NotebookLM, a note-taking app that incorporates a large language model.
Notebook LM Now Open For Everyone in the U.S
NotebookLM developed by the company to only extract data from a unique dataset.
For example, you could use it to assist with writing a paper that only uses information from a particular set of PDFs.
The idea is that, unlike a more general chatbot that might draw from the entirety of the public internet, NotebookLM will always handle information that is relevant to your particular needs because it will only work with a custom dataset.
Before changing its name, Google introduced NotebookLM as Project Tailwind at I/O this year.
The company claims that the technology is based on its Gemini Pro model.
Security Features
Additionally, Google states that NotebookLM does not use personal data for training, so any private or sensitive information in your sources will stay hidden.
That is, unless you give collaborators access to the sources.
Google has announced a number of new features for NotebookLM in addition to making it more widely available (for the previous five months, access has been granted to users based on a waitlist).
In an effort to make the transition between reading, taking notes, and writing easier, these will release over the course of the upcoming weeks.
Writing Features
The chatbot can, among other things, format your notes into a script outline, newsletter, or draft marketing plan and export them all to Google Docs with just a single click.
If you would prefer to concentrate on taking notes while avoiding distractions, you can pin notes to a Noteboard area above the chat box, save and pin chatbot responses as notes, and conceal the original content.
Soon, you’ll be able to instruct the AI to jump to a citation from a chat response or saved note, or to concentrate on specific sources (you’ll have up to 100 total).
Additionally, NotebookLM will recommend certain actions based on notes or selected text.
You’ll be able to group notes together, condense a number of them, or draft an outline or study guide right away.
To read our blog on “Google unveils its newest AI model Gemini as ChatGPT-4 rival,” click here.
