Steven Johnson asked NotebookLM to analyze suspense in his book Infernal Machine.
It successfully identified instances of withheld information and connected them to later reveals, demonstrating an ability to perform complex literary analysis.
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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.