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Take Note: AI Notebooks Are a Different GPT Experience

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At this point, you’ve likely tried a generative AI tool, like ChatGPT, which systems engage large language models, to answer your questions (prompts) .  One of the best things about GPTs – and, a sizable advantage over traditional search tools – is that you can iterate with those: communicating back and forth with them, as if they were other humans.   Now, if you want to try a different spin on that model , check out either Google Notebook LM of Microsoft CoPilot Notebooks .  With these tools, you can engage artificial intelligence on a ‘small language model ’.   Effectively, that means that you can load your own sources , and that the AI will only interact with those .  You can create and share notebooks, the same way you can save your chats with traditional GPTs .  Notebooks will also generate learning modules from your sources, including audio conversation s (like an AI-generated podcast), flashcards and mind maps .   Plus, these tools ret...