Google's NotebookLM folks sent me an email about the new beta version of their "slide deck" feature. I decided to try it, and asked for slide decks on some of my most recent blog posts. This is the slide deck NotebookLM created for me today on the blog post "Discussion with ChatGPT about the book Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller", which I also used to ask NotebookLM to create a podcast "Why Being Wrong is a Survival Trait".
I find both the figures and the wording to be more "flowery" than I prefer. This is my experience with AI in general, too nice and sweet! I always have to ask that my conversations with AI have "intellectual integrity" to combat "nice and sweet".
But I cannot argue with the creativity in the design of the figures. It's a bit "steam-punk" or maybe "life-punk" in flavor, especially the slides towards the end. And the use of seeds and roots leaves me feeling very "organic" ("rabbit foodish?").
No doubt, these are my biases. I wonder what others would get from these slides? Would it help or hinder their understanding of what I'm talking about? Or are these figures just eye candy for the bored?
