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GenAI: NotebookLM a Personal RAG Tool for Research & Productivity (Intermediate)

  • Pre-workshop activities: 10 min
  • Introductory presentation: 15 min
  • Active learning time: 60 min

About the workshop

  • This workshop focuses on using NoteBookLM, a personal Generative AI (GenAI) tool, that becomes an expert on the specific documents you provide.
  • Crucially, NoteBookLM’s functionality is directly dependent on the documents you upload. It uses these documents as its training data.
  • Participants will engage in hands-on activities to explore GenAI tool usage and learn how to evaluate output for accuracy and potential biases, based on the uploaded documents.
  • The workshop will also promote informed and responsible use of cloud-based GenAI.

Learning objectives

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

  1. Describe to a friend the fundamental capabilities of NotebookLM, including Text generation, Summarization, Translation, Question-answering
  2. Notebook guide: Use the built-in prompts in the “Notebook guide” to quickly create: Briefing documents & an Audio summary of the documents in a 2-person podcast format
  3. Create Lecture or Meeting Transcription Summarizations: Prompt NotebookLM to create a summary based on who is the intended audience for the summary, and the purpose of the summary (for example meeting notes).
  4. Create Research Summaries: Efficiently summarize and analyze research literature such as journal articles, reports, presentations and videos including citations. Verify all facts and claims.
  5. Ideation & Brainstorming: Evaluate a group of journal articles for gaps in the literature and potential research questions to fill those gaps or explore a related topic.
  6. Summarize Survey Feedback: Summarize large numbers of short-answer survey responses, to help you quickly understand the key issues being brought up by respondents.
  7. Presentation Assistance: Based on a journal article create a script along with slide titles for a Presentation with Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint.

NEXT STEP: Pre-Workshop Activities

Generative AI Workshop Pathway

This workshop is part of our Generative AI Workshop Pathway. The Pathway workshops are designed to help subject area experts and non-experts, and help meet the needs of students, faculty, & staff by offering foundational to advanced research & productivity skills training: