15 incredibly useful things you didn’t know NotebookLM could do

Generative AI may be both the most useful and the most mystifying tool of our modern-tech era.

The problem—aside from all the endlessly documented issues around accuracy—is that generative AI generally seems to function in a DOS-like blank prompt form. The onus is squarely on you to figure out what to ask and how to put these saucy systems to use.

That black-box feeling is especially apparent when you look at NotebookLM, an “AI-first notebook” launched by Google nearly two years ago.