NotebookLM

In this nine-minute Episode, Brick Thompson and Ed Daniels discuss Google’s NotebookLM, a fascinating new tool that generates a podcast from one or up to 50 source documents. All the Google user needs to do is to drag the intended files into the NotebookLM window and instruct the application to generate an audio podcast. After some thinking, the one male and one female synthetic characters interact for ten to thirty minutes having an informative and entertaining conversation about the source documents. It must be tried to be believed!

Brick discusses how he used it to help his daughter better understand a complex textbook while riding the train into the City.

Ed explains how he uses NotebookLM to help his friends understand the amazing capabilities of AI.

Brick and Ed both agree they haven't completely optimized their use of this revolutionary tool, but they are having fun exploring the use cases.They recommend that listeners experiment with NotebookLM for their own business and personal use. Go to notebooklm.google.com.

Note: After recording this video I discovered several other videos on how to use NotebookLM by a podcaster named Callum AKA wanderloots. https://wanderloots.com/ Here's a link to one of his videos https://youtu.be/YP6fS5JtMkg?si=x8b1EOaUlyzNJxm1 
 
The name of this podcast, Beyond Electric Sheep, is a reference to the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. That novel is the source for the movies Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). It explores the themes of artificial intelligence, empathy, and reality in a dystopian future where humans and androids coexist. The novel raises the question of whether androids can dream or feel anything at all, and whether they are different from humans in any meaningful way. 

Beyond Electric Sheep is also available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYg2J0jET_BPCKSnsxz8mleEmYogYJZhn