Google NotebookLM: Awesome but also not quite there.

6/10/2026
1 min read
By Bruce R. Long

The results are truly astonishing. However, some of the neurology/biology artistic impressions are truly bizarre, and in the second cinematic explainer video watch out for the introvert-extrovert stimulation gauge. What is the needle doing and why? Nobody knows. The answer is blowing in the wind, or something. I did use cinematic mode for both, and so perhaps one of the other modes will do less wild artistic interpretation of technical concepts.

A very eccentric cybernetic humanoid artist making wild abstract art with biological and neurological themes. A real mad artist plus mad scientist vibe.

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