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
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