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Oct 8Liked by Craig Barton

Doing a simple task well.

I have been using chatgpt paid version to strip experiences and outcomes, and benchmarks out of the curriculum for excellence pdf documents into spreadsheet friendly format. I thought this would be a straight forward task but it's been infuriatingly laborious. Notebook LM has done the same task in about three minutes and because it is only looking at the pdf I uploaded it seems less prone to doing any of the annoying things chatgpt does with the same information like summarise, conflate information or make stuff up.

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That’s a great idea! I’m on it 😃

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Oct 14Liked by Craig Barton

I was blown away at Notebook LM, it’s super easy to use very intuitive and the podcast that it created gave more detailed than the deck that I uploaded for it to create the content from. I was able to create FAQs, Executive Briefings, etc. I am WOWED at this tool.

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Three unrelated people have shown me NotebookLM in the last week, and this is number 4. The impact this will have on how I think is going to be huge. Great case studies Craig, thank you.

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Yes, I’m trying not to get carried away, but I think this is something that could really help lots of people

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Oct 8Liked by Craig Barton

Listening to the deep dive was the second time I thought AI is going to change the world, the first time being when I played with Chat GPT the first time. Thanks for this - it’s going to save me a lot of time!

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Great discussion of NotebookLM. I’ve use it a number of times and made a few podcasts of my own work including my 2006 paper with John Sweller and Richard Clark. Other than te fact that the ‘hosts’ use the word ‘exactly’ way too often, they tend to try to spice it up with examples which are either partially or completely off the mark.

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That classic paper was one of the first ones I tried as well. Yes, you are right. Once you know a paper really well, you start to notice the slight liberties the hosts take with their examples and analogies! But in terms of getting an easily digestible overview with the intention of diving deeper, I am impressed.

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