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Google NotebookLM's Sibling: Illuminate
Posted on 02/20/2025
Two generative AI tools, NotebookLM and Illuminate (released September 2024) are free with a Google account. There’s a lot of buzz around NotebookLM and little about Illuminate. This article highlights the benefits of using Illuminate.
What is Illuminate?
Illuminate can create audio summaries of PDF’s and this is all it does. “Right now, Illuminate is learning from a set of scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.” Specifically, Illuminate “helps users “understand technical papers in very specific scientific areas.” This allows AI to learn “leading edge research on topics which are in development and significant.”
How can Illuminate help adult learners?
Its purpose allows easier “access to understanding and learning technical papers.” This tech creates an “audio summary that is more useful for students” in chunking out the technical language into summaries which can assist and support comprehension.
If interested in accessing this technology, click on the full post for step-by-step directions.
