Google's NotebookLM Could Be the Ultimate AI-Based Notes App If It Stops Lying

Seem to be a bit opinionated on how you should use it. But maybe when by the time it becomes more widely available (seem to be restricted to US only currently) it could become a more general tool.

I haven't had a lot of luck with it. With large (tens of MB) PDFs it silently fails to add the source. With smaller PDFs I don't need a machine to summarize them. For dense, factual materials it just invents things that are not true. As an example of the latter, I added a source from the inventory of housing construction opportunity sites in the city of Berkeley, asked some basic factual questions, and it just blends numbers from the source together into a soup of lies.

Bard lies a lot, probably why.<p>I try this query every once in a while:<p>Please provide a list of small SUVs sold in 2023, sorted by rear hip width.<p>It gives a list, but makes up a bunch of numbers for hip width.

It seems to work great to ask questions about any books, for example I was unable to remember the name of a character and just uploading the PDF and asking gave me the correct answer as opposed to the hallucinated response of ChatGPT or Bard.

Although the article says that &quot;Google released NotebookLM to the wider public&quot;, availability is still restricted to the USA.