{"id":78684,"date":"2024-09-17T15:58:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T14:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/?p=78684"},"modified":"2024-09-17T15:58:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T14:58:02","slug":"testing-googles-notebooklm-with-rajar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/testing-googles-notebooklm-with-rajar\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing Google&#8217;s NotebookLM with RAJAR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google has a recent-ish AI tool called NotebookLM. The idea is that you throw a lot of information into it, and it can sift through it, answer questions based on what you&#8217;ve told it and so on. Recently they added the ability to <em>auto-generate a podcast!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I decided to test it. I gave it precisely one source for RAJAR Q2 2024 data &#8211; my own site, and specifically the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/rajar-q2-2024\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"78631\">report I wrote based on that data<\/a>. Then it&#8217;s just a question of pressing a button, waiting a few minutes and a &#8220;podcast&#8221; being auto-generated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It came back with an 11:46 podcast which was generated in the form of an informal chat between a US-accented man and woman. Here are the first couple of minutes to give you a flavour of what it came up with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/RAJAR-Q2-2024-test.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aside from the interesting pronunciation of &#8220;RAJAR&#8221; (&#8220;Ry-jar&#8221;) I would say that this isn&#8217;t bad. I get acknowledged as the source of the analysis, and the tone is very relaxed. That&#8217;s not inappropriate for this subject, but perhaps it might be for something else. Maybe if I was writing about likely outcomes of cancer treatments, the tone could be inappropriate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And there&#8217;s definitely some stre-e-e-e-t-t-t-c-c-c-h-h-h-ing going on. The &#8220;woman&#8221; repeats what the man says for example. But the AI is smart enough to know that RAJAR is an industry standard (not something I necessarily explained on that page). Q2 2024 is summarised as &#8220;summer&#8221; and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be honest, I&#8217;m not sure how this would best be used. I think you could quickly read my full article faster than you could listen to the auto-generated podcast. But perhaps if it were a subject with lots of articles, then this form of summary might work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I say, the tone is very relaxed and I&#8217;d like a few options there. Similarly, British voices might sound more convincing talking about British radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And there&#8217;s part of me that wonders really what the point of AI generated podcasts is? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you can&#8217;t be bothered to <em>make<\/em> something yourself, why should I <em>listen <\/em>to it? Perhaps I should point my AI-listener towards your AI-podcast and it can write me a two-line summary. What have we achieved at that point aside from consume a lot of AI processing power?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that might be overly negative. If I&#8217;m cramming for a history exam and can throw some on-line articles about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zinoviev_letter\">The Zinoviev Letter<\/a> then this might be a quick way to summarise that information for me (That was a subject we studied in history at school as a friend reminded me recently).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Definitely worth a test&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Featured image above auto-generated via Adobe AI with the prompt: &#8220;A mixture of soundwaves and documents floating in an empty chamber&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has a recent-ish AI tool called NotebookLM. The idea is that you throw a lot of information into it, and it can sift through it, answer questions based on what you&#8217;ve told it and so on. Recently they added the ability to auto-generate a podcast! So I decided to test it. 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