There are many large language models for creating generating content with artificial intelligence. The Teaching and Learning Innovation Center recommends students and faculty use tools from Google as we can our email credentials to access them.

NotebookLM (description written by Gemini)

NotebookLM is an AI-powered research and writing assistant from Google designed to help you understand and work with your own documents. Unlike general-purpose chatbots that pull information from the entire internet, NotebookLM becomes a personalized expert on the specific sources you provide, such as PDFs, Google Docs, or website URLs.

Once you upload your materials, NotebookLM creates an interactive "notebook" where you can chat with your documents. You can ask complex questions, generate summaries of dense reports, brainstorm new ideas, or create outlines based solely on the provided content. This "source-grounding" approach keeps the AI focused, relevant, and helps prevent factual errors or "hallucinations."

A key feature is its ability to provide in-line citations for every answer it generates, linking you directly back to the specific passages in your original documents. This makes fact-checking effortless and builds trust in the AI's output. It’s an invaluable tool for students, researchers, and professionals who need to quickly synthesize large volumes of text, uncover insights, and transform static information into an active knowledge base to work faster and smarter.

Gemini (description written by Gemini)

Gemini.google.com is the web interface for Google's family of generative AI models, offering a conversational assistant for a wide range of tasks. Formerly known as Bard, it functions as a powerful tool for writing, planning, brainstorming, and summarizing. Users can interact with the AI to generate content, such as drafts for emails, documents, and creative writing, or to get help with complex research by having the model find and summarize essential information from large datasets.

The platform is powered by multimodal AI models that can understand and process different types of information, including text, images, audio, and video. This capability allows for more nuanced and comprehensive interactions, enabling users to ask questions about a picture, generate a video from a prompt, or get a quick summary of a long email thread. The service is integrated across various Google products, including Google Workspace apps like Gmail and Docs, and is a key part of Google's broader strategy to embed AI into its core services.


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