NotebookLM can now summarize YouTube videos

Now you can add YouTube movies and audio recordsdata to NotebookLM, an AI-powered summarizing software for training and analysis. The replace means Google’s Gemini 1.5 Professional-powered digital assistant can now deal with Google Docs, PDFs, textual content recordsdata, Google Slides, YouTube video URLs, audio recordsdata and internet pages. This expands NotebookLM’s potential sources to incorporate lecture recordings, informative YouTube content material and group discussions. Google claims that it securely shops all data uploaded to NoteBookLM and doesn’t use it to coach AI.

Google launched the digital analysis assistant in the summertime of 2023 and upgraded it to run on Gemini 1.5 Professional this previous June. Alongside the AI-powered bump, Google expanded NotebookLM to be obtainable in over 200 international locations and territories. Most just lately, Google added Audio Overview to NotebookLM. The software has two AI hosts — hopefully not foreshadowing what internet hosting will seem like sooner or later — talk about your sources, summarize materials and “banter.” Google is now including the power to share Audio Overviews with others by way of a public URL.

The irony right here is that the rationale we might want an AI to briefly summarize a YouTube video within the first place is as a result of Google incentivized the creation of ever-longer movies.