Google's NotebookLM AI Can Now 'Discover Sources' For You 6
Google's NotebookLM has added a new "Discover sources" feature that allows users to describe a topic and have the AI find and curate relevant sources from the web -- eliminating the need to upload documents manually. "When you tap the Discover button in NotebookLM, you can describe the topic you're interested in, and NotebookLM will bring back a curated collection of relevant sources from the web," says Google software engineer Adam Bignell. Click to add those sources to your notebook; "it's a fast and easy way to quickly grasp a new concept or gather essential reading on a topic." PCMag reports: You can still add your files. NotebookLM can ingest PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, audio files, Google Docs, or Google Slides and summarize, transcribe, narrate, or convert into FAQs and study guides. "Discover sources" helps incorporate information you may not have saved. [...] The imported sources stay within the notebook you created. You can read the entire original document, ask questions about it via chat, or apply other NotebookLM features to it.
Google started rolling out both features on Wednesday. It should be available for all users in about "a week or so." For those concerned about privacy, Google says, "NotebookLM does not use your personal data, including your source uploads, queries, and the responses from the model for training." There's also an "I'm Feeling Curious" button (a reference to its iconic "I'm feeling lucky" search button) that generates sources on a random topic you might find interesting.
Google started rolling out both features on Wednesday. It should be available for all users in about "a week or so." For those concerned about privacy, Google says, "NotebookLM does not use your personal data, including your source uploads, queries, and the responses from the model for training." There's also an "I'm Feeling Curious" button (a reference to its iconic "I'm feeling lucky" search button) that generates sources on a random topic you might find interesting.
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Seriously, this is why the internet is all bots now.?.. other articles, here, talking about how bot scraping traffic has grown to, not sure, 40 percent I think.. 40 percent of the traffic at wikipedia and github... who knows what the exact number is, obviously it needs to be further qualifed, but bot traffic is way up. So it's likely Big AI and or lots of little Joe Self Absorbed Influencers, no? Using this laptop thingy with AI.
This is the same as l
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The internet has been "all bots" for a long time now.
They are now taking over the personal computer, and soon they'd have taken over the majority of people that you talk to.
I'll quote a comment here about the new US reality that made me shake my head in disbelief. Apparently, this is happening:
Kids standing in my office talking to me while real-time furiously typing things into ChatGPT for context in the middle of the conversation.
Pretty soon the only thing that you'll be talking to will be a bot, regurgitated by a web page or by a willing mouth.
Regurgitating, itself, whatever internet scraps it has been fed.
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That's the plot of the
Clueless guy in a meeting, no idea what is going on , types a few words, and his laptop generates a presentation, which saves his skin in the meeting.
Seems to me they are just encouraging people to be stupider. Do less but keep your crap job you obviously have no interest in.
I can't wait
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The internet has been "all bots" for a long time now.
They are now taking over the personal computer, and soon they'd have taken over the majority of people that you talk to.
I'll quote a comment here about the new US reality that made me shake my head in disbelief. Apparently, this is happening:
Kids standing in my office talking to me while real-time furiously typing things into ChatGPT for context in the middle of the conversation.
Pretty soon the only thing that you'll be talking to will be a bot, regurgitated by a web page or by a willing mouth.
Regurgitating, itself, whatever internet scraps it has been fed.
I've been saying for years that the fictional accounts of the machine takeover of mankind got it all wrong. We lost the war without a single shot being fired. We treated electronics as the babysitter since the invention of the TV, and new iterations of tech get shoved into kids' hands as fast as parents can buy them. Kids develop the habit of dependence, and that dependence will stay with them throughout their lives. You see a group of kids "hanging out" together, even at what they call a party, and they're
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yeah, there's a lot of this about. but if we had these when we we're young, would we've been any different? I have my doubts.
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yeah, there's a lot of this about. but if we had these when we we're young, would we've been any different? I have my doubts.
No, because our parents insisted on not parenting too. Turns out, it takes actual concern for children from the people raising them to avoid developing these tech-dependencies when the tech is available. My generation? We just got told to go outside and come back in time for supper. It's most likely a cultural thing, where in the US parent generations are forced to pour most of their resources and time into jobs, rather than parenting, and kids are left to their own devices. And technology is often used as