The Vergecast

The chatbot becomes the teacher

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For the first episode in our new miniseries about the impact of AI in our everyday lives, we chat with Steven Johnson, a longtime author who has spent the last couple of years at Google working on an AI research and note-taking tool called NotebookLM. We talk about whether AI can really help us learn better, how Google has tried to make NotebookLM more accurate and helpful, and whether AI-generated podcasts are the future of learning. 

Further reading:

  • NotebookLM
  • Steven Johnson’s website / newsletter
  • From Steven Johnson: Listening To The Algorithm
  • Google teases Project Tailwind — a prototype AI notebook that learns from your documents
  • Google’s AI-powered note-taking app is the messy beginning of something great
  • Google is using AI to make fake podcasts from your notes

    • Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you.

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