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2 weeks ago | 
ideasiclex.com | Rick Rubin |Steven Johnson |Elizabeth Gilbert |Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
ai-supremacy.com | Alex McFarland |Michael Spencer |Steven Johnson
In September, 2024 Audio Overviews went viral creating a moment in time when Google Labsâ NotebookLM had its own âChatGPTâ like moment. That Generative AI could magically turn any topic into a synthetic general purpose podcast felt weirdly incredible! Thatâs when of AI Disruptor wrote one of the most shared guest posts on this publication ever: How to use NotebookLM for personalized knowledge synthesis.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
adjacentpossible.substack.com | Steven Johnson
Last week, I happened on a tweet from Patrick Collison (co-founder of Stripe and the excellent Stripe Press) reflecting on the ten classic “triple-decker” novels that he’d just finished reading:This year, I read ten important historical novels: Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, To The Lighthouse, Bleak House, Portrait of a Lady, Anna Karenina, Life and Fate, Heart of Darkness, Madame Bovary, and The Magic Mountain… For me the clear standouts are Middlemarch, Bleak House, Karenina, and Life and Fate.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
blog.google | Steven Johnson
NotebookLM is the ultimate tool for understanding the information that matters most to you. Globally, millions of people and tens of thousands of organizations are using our AI-powered research assistant. They’re studying smarter, making informed decisions faster and listening on the go with Audio Overviews.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
ai-supremacy.com | Michael Spencer |Steven Johnson |Alex McFarland
In 2025 are we entering a golden age of AI tools I ask? Scroll down if you want to get to the guide about NotebookLM in a hurry. Let me first build a quick case for you and talk about some of the recent trends in Enterprise AI, Agent frameworks, Open-Source innovation, how they intersect with capex on AI products, tool development - ultimately discover how this all begins to converge in 2025.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
adjacentpossible.substack.com | Steven Johnson
It was only two months ago that I was writing to you all with news of a fun new feature that we were rolling out at NotebookLM that converted your source material into an engaging simulated audio conversation between two AI hosts. We’d been testing audio overviews internally at Google for the preceding month, so we had a pretty good sense from the enthusiasm we were hearing that we had a hit on our hands.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
exponentialview.co | Azeem Azhar |Steven Johnson
I invited my old friend to share with us his insider perspective on creating NotebookLM — a product seen by some as Google’s ChatGPT moment. Its audio summaries feature which creates realistic-sounding conversations between two podcast hosts, in particular, created a bit of buzz. The time hosts ‘realised’ they were not human or spent ten minutes analysing a document that contained only the words ‘poop’ and ‘fart’ went viral.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
wondertools.substack.com | Jeremy Caplan |Steven Johnson |Tiago Forte
Googleâs free NotebookLM made improvements on October 17 to what has become one of the most powerful ways to use AI. You can now customize its most popular feature â AI-generated audio summaries â to focus on specific topics, target audiences, or documents. Read on for an updated overview of one of the yearâs most surprising AI tools, including suggested ways to use it and a few limitations.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
ai-supremacy.com | Michael Spencer |Steven Johnson
Hey Everyone, Google thinks it’s hard to go from information to insight and that NotebookLM can help us with that. (☝—💎For a limited time get a Yearly sub for just $5 a month✨— ☝). While Generative AI is not going to produce a personalized tutor or teacher anytime soon, it’s fun to imagine what it could become.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
adjacentpossible.substack.com | Steven Johnson
One of the very first demos I saw when I began working with Google in late July of 2022 was a series of prompts that asked their PALM model to discuss black holes at various levels of explanation: Explain it to me like I'm ten, like I'm a grad student, using sports metaphors. At that point PALM was almost certainly one of the two most powerful language models on the planet, though Google had never exposed it directly to users. So just getting my hands on it was interesting enough.
