Google’s NotebookLM Aims to Be the Ultimate Writing Assistant

Current AI writing tools are a great way to mass produce writing that is intensely mid, and makes you feel dead inside. Can we use AI to help the best writers do better work? I don't know. But let's think about the bottlenecks for good writing.

I’m personally much more interested in machine intelligence as human augmentation rather than the oft-hyped AI assistant as a separate embodiment.

Several participants wanted to be able to use Wordcraft to facilitate access to information. The idea of using the language model as a search engine repeatedly came up. In MT’s words: “I can’t read the entire internet or all the books by my favorite authors, but I can use a model like this one to leverage prolific catalogues” of information. DH hop

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Much of what we do as modern people—at work and beyond—is to process information and generate action. GPT-4 will massively speed your ability to do these things, and with greater breadth and scope. Within a few years, this copilot will fall somewhere between useful and essential to most professionals and many other sorts of workers. Without GPT-4,

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