Martin: Google employees use NotebookLM to boost confidence before performance reviews
Raiza Martin · Behind the product: NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs) · Oct 10, 2024 · at 17:43
Raiza Martin, Senior PM for AI at Google Labs leading NotebookLM, describes unexpected internal use cases for the product's AI podcast generator.
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“Google has these Q three check-ins or like quarterly check-ins where we have to write performance reviews for ourselves and the amount of Googlers... That ping me that I don't even know. And they're like, wow, this was such a boost to my confidence just to upload my own You know, my own check-in notes and then have it generate an audio overview. It's like people are going into meetings, feeling really good about themselves.”
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