Introduction to NotebookLM
1. Introduction to NotebookLM
2. Introduction to NotebookLM
We live in an era of information overload. We all have plenty of PDFs to read, meeting notes to review, and videos on YouTube to watch. Sometimes it's just too much to keep track of all of those. And this is where NotebookLM comes in. It is an AI research assistant designed specifically to help you manage this chaos. Steven Johnson, one of the creators of this tool, calls it "a tool for understanding things", and this is exactly how we'll use it. NotebookLM is grounded. It relies only on the materials you uploaded. This gives you full control over the sources and minimizes the risk of hallucinations. It is like building a custom AI expert that only knows what you provide and is great at finding connections and tracking sources. Let's test it. To access Notebook, we go to notebooklm.google.com. Let's quickly review how it works. Here you have a section of your own notebooks. What are notebooks? Think of them as a working space for your projects. Now, let's go to the featured notebooks to quickly grasp what I'm talking about. Featured notebooks are ready-made knowledge bases prepared by the NotebookLM team. Let's open this one about health and longevity to see the interface in action. And here is our working space. On the left, you see the sources panel. Notebook will be providing information based on what is there. In this case, it contains information based on the author's latest book, Super Ages, and his Substack. In the center, we have the chat panel. This is the heart of our interaction with Notebook and our research command center. On the right, we have a studio with different features of NotebookLM. We'll be uncovering these features across the next lessons. Now let's go to the chat. I will ask, "How does sleep affect our health?" And now Notebook is looking for the answer to this question across all the sources updated on the left. Okay. Now let's analyze the answer. It's pretty comprehensive, right? See those little numbers? These are citations. If I click one, it takes me to the exact spot in the source document from which Notebook took it, so that you can always verify it. Okay, let's check another one. Citations are actually one of the most useful features of Notebook. And now, the most interesting use cases come from leveraging your own sources and data. So, we will start from there in the next lesson.3. Let's practice!
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