Steven Berlin Johnson

the other thing is that Gemini is, is natively multimodal. So there's, there's all this incredible stuff that we're going to be able to do with images as well. I mean, right now it's all text, but we, we, we were just doing a bunch of experiments the other night with images and it's, it's astonishingly good.

I could imagine somebody who was going down a rabbit hole of some, you know, complex crime, you know, investigation and had whatever, 30 PDFs of, of evidence there. Yeah. Um, that, that could be particularly intoxicating.

I think that there's something that is like that, that I I'm seeing again in notebook LM in part because of the suggested questions. I mean, that's just, that has that same feel of like you jump into a big archive of information, you ask an opening question, or you, you know, we'll actually recommend topics that you can explore right out of the gate, but, and then you just kind of ride those suggested questions for a while and you get, it's a great way to kind of engage with, you know, kind of i

it understands how the software works and it understands generally how lawyers work. And so it's able to kind of synthesize those two things and come up with this actual kind of precise

So anybody can, whatever kind of service you are a company you are, you can just load up the documents that describe how your system works. And then you can share notebooks with other people. And so then they can ask questions and engage.

it becomes an instant expert in how to use notebook, which, you know, it turns out to be a really, just as a, as a kind of onboarding guide as a help desk, it's so powerful.

by the end of the year, early next year, I'm going to have one notebook that's effectively like all the important things I've ever read and all the important things that I've ever written are going to be live in this one notebook and my ability then to find that idea that I jotted down, you know, in 2007 that is so long gone, you know, to, to my actual physical brain's memory, but that, you know, the combination of the software, um, and my curating the, all the information initially is gonna, is

Finding new sources is the one I was looking for. That is, that is not short term coming out yet, but that is definitely where we're headed.

what's coming, uh, like any day now, um, you're going to be able to select a note or a set of notes and we're going to automatically give you a set of options when you select those notes. And those options will be things like create a study guide, um, or convert into a thematic outline or suggest related ideas for my sources.

we spent a lot of time trying to get that style, right? Like it's, it's, it's very much like it's editorial product, you know,

It was one of the, you know, I mean, this is, I say this, I said this before I joined Google, it was top five impressive technology demos I've ever seen in my life. It's, it's, it's uncanny.