NotebookLM AI Assistance

To setup Google's NotebookLM AI assistant and help increase your understanding of the Born Free disease model and protocol, here is a guide:


Step 1
Visit the website: 
https://notebooklm.google.com/

Login with your Google account (or create one), if prompted.

Step 2
Create a new notebook, by clicking on the "+ New Notebook" button.
It will now prompt you to add your first source.
Choose "Website" in the "Link" section. Add the URL below where prompted and click on the "Insert" button:
https://bornfree.life/2024/protocol/


Step 3 
Rename the Notebook. You can now click on "Untitled notebook" in the title bar and rename it to Born Free or something helpful in finding it again.

Step 4 
Add 2 more sources, by hitting [+] in the upper left-hand pane, then choosing "Website" in the "Link" section and adding each URL below, then hitting "Insert". You will need to repeat this sequence each time:
https://bornfree.life/2024/

https://bornfree.life/2024/laypersons-overview/


Step 5 
Prompting the LLM. As usual, LLMs may sometimes hallucinate or make mistakes. I've found that the AI needed some initial prompting to read the database tables on the protocol page.

You can achieve that by asking it the following question:

Can you read all of the tables in the protocol page?
It should answer with some kind of confirmation. Save that note by clicking on the "pin" button.

You can verify this was successful by asking another question:

What stage of the protocol are bacteriophages used?
Its answer should include information about Stage 2.

Finished 
You should now be able to ask NotebookLM questions about Born Free material and hopefully get helpful responses.
Please note that NotebookLM does not automatically refresh sources.

It would be a good strategy to periodically go into the Sources pane on the left, remove the source for "The Protocol[..]" and then add the website https://bornfree.life/2024/protocol/ again as a source, to capture ongoing updates.

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