You can now upload YouTube videos and audio files to NotebookLM, an AI-powered summarization tool for education and research. With this update, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro-powered virtual assistant can now handle Google Docs, PDFs, text files, Google Slides, YouTube video URLs, audio files, and web pages. This expands NotebookLM’s potential sources to include lecture recordings, informative YouTube content, and group discussions. Google claims that all information uploaded to NoteBookLM is securely stored and not used to train its AI.
Google released Virtual Research Assistant in the summer of 2023 and upgraded it to run on Gemini 1.5 Pro in June of this year. Alongside the AI-powered enhancements, Google has expanded NotebookLM to be available in more than 200 countries and territories. Recently, Google added audio summaries to NotebookLM. The tool has two AI hosts, and while we hope they don’t foretell what hosting will look like in the future, they can discuss sources, summarize material, and tell “jokes”. I will. Google is now adding the ability to share audio summaries with others through a public URL.
The irony here is that the reason we need AI to shorten YouTube videos in the first place is because Google is encouraging us to create longer videos than ever before.
