Welcome to the AI Basics Newsletter

Hello, thanks a million for signing up for the AI Basics newsletter. Right now there aren’t a whole lot of subscribers, so there’ll be a delay in making the newsletter weekly. I feel like my time will be better spent researching AI to make the highest quality newsletter by the time I get more subscribers.

In the meantime, here’s a link to the free waitlists for 4 of Google’s AI tools:

1. Search Labs - This includes 4 features of its own.

   A. SGE (Search Generative Experience) - Occasionally, this will make an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching for. You can try this out if you want, but my best AI advice is the you.com chrome extension trick, which does that, but much better.

   B. Code Tips - If you Google a coding-related search, Code Tips may trigger instead of SGE. This will give you advice on how to code certain things.

   C. Add to Sheets - This makes a button show up on the right of every link, and it lets you add it to a Google Sheet. This feature is set to end this month.

   D. SGE While Browsing - This is a new feature that I haven’t tried yet. Here’s the description:

    “Browse web pages with AI-powered tools. Understand and quickly find key points. See questions answered on the web page and jump to the relevant section to learn more.[…] This experiment will appear while you're browsing some web pages in the Google app and in Chrome on desktop.”

2. Workspace (Gmail and Google Docs) Labs - This is a feature that you’ll see everywhere. This gives you an option to automatically write an entire passage with a quick description. You can also highlight the text you’ve written to shorten or expand on it.

3. MusicLM - You would call this a text-to-music tool. The same way that you would generate an image with Midjourney or Dall-E with a few words, you can make music with this.

4. NotebookLM - I just got access to this, and it seems pretty interesting. You can upload up to 10 Google Docs or PDFs, and it can answer questions about it. It’s marketed to quiz college students and that kind of thing, but this is almost like making a simple custom chatbot, and I can see a lot of potential use cases. The AI Basics Bot and AI Site Finder have a lot more info than that, though, haha.

If you lose this email, you can find the waitlists at the top of the Links page at https://www.aibasicschannel.com/links along with some other great AI resources. If you have any questions when you get to my site, you can always ask the AI Basics Bot.

Thanks again! - Tom