Google just made an under the radar update to notebook LM and I've been using it in a way that I haven't really seen anyone talk about yet so in this video we're going to talk about notbook LM notbook LM has been available for a while and a lot of people including myself have been sleeping on it because to be frank until recently Google was playing catch up to all the other major AI players like open AI anthropic Etc and over the last month everything has changed and Google is now doing very well from hitting the top of the lmis leaderboard to releasing Gemini 2.0 to demoing their new or text a video model vo and giving us an experimental version of their thinking model I made a video about that somewhere here so notebook LM is a tool by Google it's essentially a research tool SL assistant that's great for studying it's awesome for learning essentially what it can do is adjust various types of content be it text PDF voice recordings websites YouTube videos and more and then you can chat with them summarize them and get great insights now you might be saying well I can do all that with Rag and for those that don't know rag stands for retrieval augmented generation and that's the way that we've been sharing our knowledge until now with LMS which stands for large language models like chat gbt Claud Etc you know what I think I'm just going to make a video on all the AI terminology cuz I know it could get confusing and I often find myself re-explaining these terms let me know if you want a video on that anyways so we've been using rag for a while now and it's very powerful but for the most part rag could only take in text whereas notebook LM could take in a variety of content formats and they also use other AI tricks to make it super powerful it's really cool and you might have already seen or heard about its most popular feature where you can create a podcast with Two Hosts based on your content and this has been all over the place all over the Internet it's really cool I've seen open source versions of this and even 11 Labs recently released a competition for this now the reason that notebook LM got so good all of a sudden is that Google released Gemini 2.0 and when they connected it to notebook LM it just got that much better and now they just released a new beta feature to their podcast feature which is really cool they now let you interact with the podcast as a caller like you're calling in and essentially it allows you to interrupt and interact with the podcast it's similar to the way chat gbt's advanced voice mode allows you to talk and interrupt it's so cool and the reason that I really love this is that with advanced voice mode from chat GPT you can't chat with it about your documents or your knowledge base like with custom gpts for example but with notebook LM you can so I'm going to tell you how I've been using it but first I have to give you some personal context I'm a volunteer medic an EMT at home I have a backpack with gear and a walkie-talkie and when I'm on call I respond to emergencies within 10 to 15 minutes of my location because where I live on average it takes about 15 minutes for an ambulance to show up and when you're dealing with those serious emergencies you don't have 15 minutes to wait also currently my fiance is sick so we're traveling around for treatment and that's why I'm going from hotel room to hotel room everything's going to be okay we're very positive and she's on the way out of it we are on the way out of it so over the last year due to our situation cuz I can't afford to be around sick people I haven't been able to go out into the field but it's very important for me to stay sharp to remember the material and practice scenarios so at first I would use notebook LM to go over my study materials but now with this new feature I'm able to use notebook LM to run through complex scenarios and stay up to date it's really cool now I want to say this before I go any further you should never take any medical advice from AI at least not yet cuz remember llms have a tendency to hallucinate if you don't know what hallucinate means in terms of AI by this point watch out for my coming video on AI terminology I think I'm going to do it also it's really important for me to say that I am in no way giving medical advice Sola the organization I work with is not connected to this video at all okay without further Ado let me show you notbook LM first I'll show you how to set it up and then I'm going to show you how I've been using it for practicing my EMT stuff okay this is notbook LM this is with an account I haven't set up yet you're able to upload documents I'm just going to show you you press create and right away you're just able to add sources so marketing plans course reading research notes meeting trans script sales documents whatever and it's not just documents like you could connect it to Google Drive or Google Slides you could put in YouTube videos you could put in full websites and yeah so you could add up to 50 sources per notebook that's a lot and one of the things that Google and Gemini have always had an upper leg on Claude and chubbt is they have a 2 million token context window also you see here it supports PDFs text files markdown audio like any voice notes it's crazy what you can put in here so I'm just going to add one source to show you how it works and I'm just going to add my resume why not so in here you're able to talk with your sources so again the only source we have here is my resume here is where you're able to add a podcast and what you do is you're able to add custom instructions by the customize button or you just press generate and it'll make a podcast now this takes some time depending especially on how many sources you add so this may go quickly I'm not going to do it right now but you should play with it it's really cool okay so now let's go into my use case and in this notebook I only added one source it's a big file it's all of my notes for my EMT training course it's the final review before I started taking all the exams to become a licensed medic so here's my EMT notes and practice and here I only added a single Source this is my final review this is my study guide this is a very very long document where I compile all my notes for the whole course that I studied before I could become a licensed medic now what I did here is I already pressed generate podcast I'm just going to play with it but I'm not even going to press play right now cuz I want to show you the new interactive mode that I was telling you about so just click here so I'm going to press play and then I'm going to start interacting with it all right welcome in everyone ready for another Deep dive today we're going deep into something uh pretty intense actually the training materials that hasela Medics use yeah it's serious stuff it's not just like your average First Aid course you know we're talking about equipping people to handle real life or death situations exactly and going through these materials it's like wow you really get a sense of just how incredible and fragile the human body is you know it's a real crash course in anatomy and physiology that's for sure oh wait so someone wants to join hey go for it okay so I want to throw a theoretical scenario at you and you're going to help me try and figure out what's going on so it's the morning and you approach a you get a call about a boy a man he's about in his 30s he's welld dressed but he's acting kind of out of it kind of confused a bit aggressive almost like he's drunk now he has a friend with him he doesn't really this friend doesn't really know him he says he thinks he takes some medicine but he's not sure his eyes look fine the the guy doesn't look like he has any trauma it doesn't look like he has any hits and we're trying to figure out what's happening so what do you think that's a really interesting scenario and I like that you're thinking this through with us yeah it's a great way to see how these training materials could be applied to a real life situation so first off the fact that he's well-dressed but acting strangely that's kind of a red flag it suggests that whatever is going on it's probably not a typical intoxication scenario right and the confusion aggressiveness that could point to a few things well based on the material we've been looking at we could consider things like hypoglycemia oh yeah low blood sugar can make people seem drunk or just generally out of it the fact that the friend isn't sure about his medication history that raises some questions too yeah especially if you might be diabetic it's important to remember that the source material says that a diabetic patient can appear drunk exactly so checking his sugar levels would definitely be one of the first steps okay so it got it I guided it to it I gave it all the facts because basically when you're out in the field you have to take all the different Clues you have to piece all the pieces together look at the surroundings look at any signs so anyways that was just one use case but as you saw as I gave notbook LM my knowledge base and also some Clues they were able to deduct that this person in this theoretical scenario was not drunk or having a drug overdose in fact they were hypoglycemic it got it it's really cool so I have to say that it feels not just like a regular llm like this does have to do some deductive reasoning here but I think this is really cool the last thing I want to tell you is that notebook LM is free there is a paid version I don't use it I'm actually getting along very good with the regular notebook LM all you need is a Gmail account or Google account I suggest giving a shot I'm sure you could find a personal use case or a use case for your business there's so many things you can do with this it's really really cool I hope you found this video useful I hope you learned something if you haven't done so already please like this 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