Now most of you who know me are aware that I am not on the AI bandwagon. But Google NotebookLM is a fascinating AI tool that caused me to say “wow” for the first time in years about a new technology. Why? Because it does something innovative that, although early in the development cycle, shows great promise in working with electronic documents.
Sure it summarizes and analyzes and allows you to make queries and make notes to those summaries. But it also generates an audio “discussion” about the material you summarize, with two AI “moderators” AND it allows you to interrupt the moderators and ask questions.
How are the answers you ask? Well as deep as the source material being summarized and surprisingly articulate.
So to that end, I pointed it to Ralph Losey’s latest blog post comparing ChatGPT to Gemini and DeepSeek. https://e-discoveryteam.com/2025/02/12/breaking-new-ground-evaluating-the-top-ai-reasoning-models-of-2025/ You can find the full audio recording of the summary below and a short recording of my interaction with the “moderators” (who Ralph calls the “Gemini Twins”)on the EDicovery Channel at https://youtu.be/WMTOCteLaX8 .
Drawbacks? Sure. Data size in the free version is small and data types do not include any documents that come from Redmond. I’m shocked. Once you’re in the Interactive Mode window you need to stay there … returning to the prior window will restart the recording. Name pronunciations are iffy. It mispronounced Ralph’s last name, promised to correct it when I pointed out the error then did so intermittently. And the Gemini Twins are a little too bubbly and effusive in their commentary for my taste.
Still, an exciting start to what promises to be a richly featured product.
Posted by Tom O'Connor 
