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11. Same here ...

I am *slowly* making friends with AI, although I still consider 'artificial intelligence' an oxymoron. It's convenient to automate specific tasks that would be a pain to do myself, but I tell it what to do. I use it to transcribe and summarize audio recordings of doctor appointments, for example, but I double-check for accuracy and proofread carefully ... it always makes mistakes, but I have to say it is getting better.

I have found Google's NotebookLM to be really useful. If I'm researching a topic I can link videos, audio reports and podcasts, pdf files, text files on my computer, web pages, etc. The tool does really well at pulling together reports and summaries based on all those sources, and you can query those sources as if you were using ChatGPT, except all the responses are based *only* on your source material ... no scouring the net. But this is assuming that I've already read or at least skimmed the material. It would be nearly impossible to absorb all that info on my own without taking intensive notes, especially if the topic is highly technical.