Google's NoteBookLM adds a new dimension to AI-powered research tools, using a digital host that joins audio overviews and AI-created “podcasts” to discuss information to upload to the platform. Notebooklm can also provide video presentations. The new video overview only has one AI speaker, but synthesized audio comes with a series of slides containing text and illustrations.
The idea is that AI will digest and explain a chaotic collection of academic papers, blog posts and YouTube videos. Instead of having them read everything, you can generate an overview of the narrated video. It's very easy. Just upload the source as usual,[新しいビデオ概要]You need to click the button. Soon, I was ready to use the approximately 7 minute video.
I decided to test it on two topics from the other side of the cultural spectrum. I first compiled the article and booked an excerpt from the nightmare whims of medieval painter Hieronymus Bosch. Another has gathered a number of online websites about my favorite anarchic UK panel shows. Taskmaster.
Bosch
Bosch's video captured the broad strokes of Bosch's work and clearly conveyed the main historic takeaways. It guided me for much of his life, diving deep into his most famous work, the Garden of Earthly Joy, and suggested ways in which the triptic form represents a moral journey. There was a lot of interest in quotes and condensed information.
However, what was particularly lacking from his presentations about famous painters was much of his actual art. One small image and some clip art representations, there was nothing there. And while there was a lot to say to the AI speaker, we needed to see Bosch's wild and overwhelming work, and in the video presentation, its absence was glare.
Taskmaster
Taskmaster The video is equally filled with a lot of good information and may be imagined, but the AI voices sounded more enthusiastic when discussing the show. But again, the timeline and list of memorable moments doesn't make much sense without at least one or two screen grabs of television shows full of eye-catching visuals.
The visuals were actually discussed, just as I had imagined. Taskmaster It's not as interesting as listening to the narrator. Not to mention the strange choice of another different pie chart Taskmaster merchandise.
Spride Snooze
Some of the problems may be because you need to write a better specific prompt for the video. And to be fair, they could work to help educate anyone on the topic, unless they had to see what was being discussed. This could be an onboarding presentation, an explanatory video, or educational content in the right settings.
You should try out more topics and prompts to see if the video overview can meet the promise of custom illustrations and pulled images. That said, customization options give you room for growth. You can adjust the prompts by specific goals, audiences, and tones. So, in theory, you'll get a completely exciting, hair-raising guide on Bosch's vision of hell.
There are bones. Also, due to the future formatting options on Google, Notebooklm could eventually expand beyond the slideshow to something more dynamic.
Until then, the video overview feels like AI equivalent to dry toast. Maybe it's necessary when there's nothing else and is easy to make, but it doesn't make it enthusiastically to your friends. Still, for a quick and visual guide made from your own documents, you can do something worse. But maybe keep them private learning tools.
