Google’s curated AI ‘notebooks’ talk you through topics from parenting to Shakespeare

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

Google is partnering with authors, researchers, and publications to motorboat “featured” notebooks within its AI notetaking app, NotebookLM. These notebooks travel pre-filled with research, and fto you interact with the app’s tools, including its AI podcast maker, to larn 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 the complete works of Shakespeare. It besides partnered 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 radical to research a scope of premade notebooks alternatively than creating their own. More than 140,000 radical shared nationalist notebooks successful the past 4 weeks, according to Google.

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

The featured notebooks see archetypal substance from the root material, whether it’s a book, play, newsletter, oregon online article. NotebookLM automatically summarizes this accusation and comes pre-loaded with notes astir the topics discussed successful the root material. You tin besides interact with NotebookLM’s AI chatbot to inquire questions astir the information, arsenic good arsenic perceive to pre-generated Audio Overviews, the podcast-like discussions featuring AI “hosts.”

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