Google AI's Illuminate Makes Better Podcast than NotebookLM

users are loving how they can upload their  research papers to Google's notebook LM with   a quick click turn it into engaging podcast then  they can go on a walk a drive save thems a lot of   time while learning the material now I want to  show you how Google's evolving this with a new   program called illuminate what makes illuminate  great and it's completely free to use is that   you can customize how you want your podcast  to be that's what I want to show you today

you're going to find notebook LM and illuminate  at labs. gooogle if you haven't been here before   you're going to see a lot of AI apps that Google's  already released and ones they're experimenting   with like notebook LM so I'll put the link to  this page down below and uh you can test these   different ones out notebook LM here if you want  to learn more about that I'll put the video that   I have explaining how to use notebook LM but the  one I want to talk about today is illuminate so   I'm going to just move over a little and you're  going to see illuminates right here I'll also put   a link directly to illuminate Down Below in the  description so I'm going to click try it now if   you have a Google account you're good to go if  you're logged in like I said it's free to use in   the homepage you can see that there's already a  library that you can start with here and if you   want to listen to any of them just go ahead and  hit play Let's unpack a paper titled attention is   all you need what's the core idea here well the  big idea in this paper so it sounds if you're   Ed notebook LM it has that natural sounding  podcast sound look at this right here we have   the hand if I click on the hand we can then engage  with this so what is the formula for the learning   rate it can go through we can have a conversation  a Q& A about the paper so that's what that little   hand means now you can also and when we create  our own in a moment view the transcript and I like   this option here notebook LM didn't have that yet  but you can quickly read through the transcript of   it also now there's a few other options here  but let's go generate our own first and then   I'll show you what these are so if we go over to  generate or if I hit start generating it brings

me to the same place now what I want to point  out is you can't upload your own PDFs yet I'm   sure this is something that will be added but this  is just in the new stages just starting just like   notebook LM as it's gone along it's added more and  more options so right now we can only search one   database that this is connected to and if I click  the help content right here it's going to be this   rv. org I believe it comes from uh Cornell and it  it just talks about uh how uh you you'll see more   options very soon now I'm going to do and  put a search and I'm just going to call this AI in   education as a search and we'll go through there  and it's going to pick these articles from that   database now I can go through and I'm going to be  a little bit random I'll just pick two of these   and so I'll pick this one too the multimodality  one and then I'll add it so I have these two   different ones ready to generate my podcast or my  discussion from now what I want to point out is   this create a discussion tailored for a general  audience with a medium duration the tone should   be semi-professional any of these where it's  highlighted here I can change so now you can see   as I hover over it will give me some examples  is this for a beginner audience General audience   expert I can go through and just change these in  here so you can make those adjustments the way   you want and then when you have them just go ahead  and click generate this takes only a minute or so

to uh have the podcast and the transcripts ready  so that didn't take long and first of all I want   to just change the name and if you look over at  the ellipses here we can go to edit the name and   rather than be called discussion of two papers  I'll just call this AI in education and hit save   and then you'll see that adjust up there let's go  ahead and click Play Welcome to today's discussion   we'll be exploring two fascinating research  papers that delve into the rapidly evolving   world of artificial intelligence AI in education  so that just gives you a little example of how it   sounds uh this was an eight minute uh discussion  that they came up with remember you can change how   long you want it to be based on the description at  uh at the beginning before we generated this I can   view the transcript I like this because then I can  kind of get a quick idea even if I didn't want to   listen to it all I can kind of Zoom through it and  just look for key things uh very quickly here   hopefully that's something they add to notebook LM  as well uh right away I want to point out to with   these I showed you the edit name you can download  it from here you can also download it down here   you'll see the same thing this is going to be an  MP3 so if I click download you're going to see it   go up to the top here and then it's going to be  AI in education. MP3 and you can share that how   you would like you can also share it will give you  a link to share so you need to make sure you save   that first as I click on it it's just going to say  save and share so now that that's saved I can go   ahead and copy the link and I could send that to  uh someone else you can adjust the playback speed   here so and you can fast forward and Rewind it  sorry the playback speed is over on this side over   here I hope you like this overview of Google's  illuminate is this something you could see   yourself using if you do give it a try let me know  how the podcasts turn out for you does it make it   easier for yourself to learn from this method of  just listening to these research papers thanks   for watching this week on teachers Tech I'll see  you next time with more Tech tips and tutorials