Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
I'm sure the model is impressive, but this part of the description (not from Google) seems made up: "NotebookLM is directly targeting the visual muscle memory we all built scrolling through Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. The human brain is now highly adapted to absorb 60-second vertical bursts of information. Google simply swapped out the entertainment for your actual class syllabus." Some of us may have become habituated to the form, but there's no evidence of cause and no possibility of adaptation.

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