In a clear commitment to its “Gemini era,” Google announced this Thursday that NotebookLM, the research and writing assistant powered by artificial intelligence, will be available in more than 200 countries and territories – including Mexico – with an improved version that uses Gemini 1.5 Pro.
The tech giant introduced NotebookLM — originally known as Project Tailwind — during Google I/O 2023. This tool is basically note-taking software that helps people better understand and explore complex material.
In this assistant you can upload all types of documents—from research notes, interview transcripts, corporate documents, etc.—and it will instantly summarize the information you need to carry out your project.
Now, Google is not only enabling the tool for many more countries, but has also updated it with several features to make it more practical.
How to use NotebookLM from Google
When you first access NotebookLM, you will create a notebook and upload documents for a specific project. At that point, you can read, take notes, ask questions, organize your ideas, or ask the assistant to create automatic summaries of all your sources. You could also ask them to create a study guide or table of contents, for example.
NotebookLM is feed-based artificial intelligence, which means it uses the documents you upload to answer your queries. The wizard supports up to 25 million words per font and up to 50 fonts per notebook.
By default, NotebookLM summarizes information based on the source documents you upload to it. However, you can ask it for things like "add citations" and it will pull them from the source materials or generate them. Something important is that you can always see where an appointment comes from through the appointments function.
For example, you can use NotebookLM to view the entire transcript of a meeting and ask it to identify specific aspects of it.
Google's NotebookLM update introduces several new features. Between them:
NotebookLM now supports Google Slides, Google Docs, PDFs, text files, and even website URLs as sources.
The Notebook Guide gives you a summary of your sources by converting them into useful formats such as FAQs, Information Documents or Study Guides.
Citations you see within the wizard now take you directly to supporting passages in your sources. This so you can easily verify the AI response or delve deeper into the original text.
Using Gemini 1.5 Pro's multimodal capabilities, the assistant can also recognize information within images, graphs, and diagrams in your Slides or Docs. NotebookLM will even include citations to images as supporting evidence when relevant.
The assistant will also be available with support for more than 35 languages in chat and for your feeds, and the user interface will also support more than 100 languages.
NotebookLM has dynamic updating for Google Docs documents that you have uploaded. Basically, the wizard will give you a small notice if the information in any of these documents has changed and you can choose to update the content. However, this does not apply to URLs used as sources. In this case, the wizard creates a static copy of the information present on the web page; but the information is not dynamically updated when the website changes.
On whether videos will eventually be able to be uploaded as a feed, Raiza Martin, senior product manager for AI at Google Labs, said: "I don't want to give a preview of our roadmap, but I think one of the things people are really looking forward to in This totally multimodal world are sets of inputs and outputs that can be mixed with each other. This is something I think we will have to look forward to in the coming months.”
Regarding the issue of security and privacy of the information entered in the assistant, Google Labs spokespersons assured that "at no time are we training the AI with the documents that you upload as sources [to NotebookLM]."
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