Google’s NotebookLM can now find its own sources

Google has added a caller diagnostic to NotebookLM that lets the AI note-taking instrumentality find its ain web sources to summarize and narrate. Instead of manually uploading sources similar documents oregon YouTube links, users tin present pat the “Discover” fastener and simply picture the taxable they privation to get a amended knowing of, with the instrumentality past gathering web sources astir the subject.

Google says the Discover diagnostic started rolling retired connected Wednesday, and volition instrumentality “about a week oregon so” to beryllium disposable to each users.

NotebookLM volition hunt done “hundreds of imaginable web sources successful seconds” according to Google, analyzing the astir applicable options and past presenting a database of up to 10 recommendations, each with a summary explaining its relevance. Users tin prime which of these sources they privation NotebookLM to reference, and import them to usage successful different features, including FAQs, Briefing Docs, and podcast-like Audio Overviews that usage AI hosts to sermon a topic.

Sources volition beryllium saved wrong NotebookLM to let users to work them straight and usage them arsenic references for citations, note-taking, and question-answering capabilities. Google says that Discover sources is the archetypal of respective Gemini-powered NotebookLM features that are being developed to marque it easier for users to find applicable notebook notation materials.

Another capableness spun from this is “I’m Feeling Curious” — a fastener that prompts NotebookLM to make sources connected a wholly random topic. It’s a bully mode to spot what the diagnostic is susceptible of, but besides a amusive mode to larn astir caller subjects, overmuch similar Wikipedia’s random nonfiction feature.