Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books

谷歌 AI 笔记应用现已支持与书籍进行交互

Google’s AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you’ve purchased. The new “Expert Intelligence” feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate plans, infographics, AI podcasts, and more based on their contents.

谷歌的 AI 笔记应用 Gemini Notebook 现在可以从你购买的书籍中提取信息。全新的“专家智能”（Expert Intelligence）功能允许你将 Google Play 图书中的书籍直接导入 Gemini Notebook，这意味着你可以针对书中的内容进行提问，并基于这些内容生成计划、信息图表、AI 播客等。

During a briefing with The Verge, Google Labs editorial director Steven Johnson showed how you can use the tool to generate a recipe book using the information in Michael Pollan’s Food Rules. In another example, Gemini Notebook applied the knowledge from Kim Scott’s management-focused Radical Candor to answer a question about handling a difficult conversation with an employee. You’ll also be able to view the full text of the book directly in Notebook.

在接受 The Verge 简报采访时，Google Labs 编辑总监 Steven Johnson 展示了如何利用该工具，通过迈克尔·波伦（Michael Pollan）的《饮食规则》（Food Rules）中的信息来生成一本食谱。在另一个例子中，Gemini Notebook 应用了金·斯科特（Kim Scott）关于管理学的著作《彻底坦率》（Radical Candor）中的知识，回答了关于如何处理与员工之间困难对话的问题。你还可以直接在 Notebook 中查看书籍的全文。

To start, more than 100,000 books from publishers like Penguin Random House, Johns Hopkins University Press, Macmillan Publishers, O’Reilly Media, and others will support Expert Intelligence. Google also worked with 15 authors, including Pollan, Scott, Steven Pinker, and Jennifer Wallace, to create “Featured Notebooks” that each author customizes with additional source material, intro letters, and more. Titles that support the feature will have “Gemini Notebook” listed under the “Tools” badge in Google Play Books.

起初，来自企鹅兰登书屋（Penguin Random House）、约翰霍普金斯大学出版社（Johns Hopkins University Press）、麦克米伦出版公司（Macmillan Publishers）、奥莱利媒体（O’Reilly Media）等出版商的超过 10 万本书籍将支持“专家智能”功能。谷歌还与包括波伦、斯科特、史蒂芬·平克（Steven Pinker）和詹妮弗·华莱士（Jennifer Wallace）在内的 15 位作者合作，创建了“精选笔记”（Featured Notebooks），每位作者都可以通过额外的参考资料、介绍信等内容对其进行定制。支持该功能的书籍会在 Google Play 图书的“工具”徽章下显示“Gemini Notebook”字样。

“I’m really interested in the idea of building a collection of people whose work you really value, and kind of creating your own dream team of advisors that are just available to you wherever you go,” Johnson says.

“我非常热衷于这样一个想法：建立一个你真正看重其作品的作者合集，并打造属于你自己的‘顾问梦之队’，无论你走到哪里，他们都能为你提供帮助，”Johnson 说道。

Additionally, Google built protections into Gemini Notebook to prevent other users from accessing material from books they haven’t purchased. If you share a Notebook that includes a purchased book, a user who doesn’t own the title will see it listed as a source, but they won’t be able to view the full text or information related to it. Clicking the source will direct users to Google Play Books, where they can purchase it.

此外，谷歌在 Gemini Notebook 中内置了保护机制，以防止其他用户访问他们未购买的书籍内容。如果你分享了一个包含已购书籍的笔记，未购买该书的用户虽然能看到它被列为来源，但无法查看全文或相关信息。点击该来源会将用户引导至 Google Play 图书页面，以便他们进行购买。

“We want to be able to create a space where users can bring whatever knowledge, whatever expertise they think is going to be most relevant and do it in a way that creates new revenue possibilities for authors and publishers as well,” Johnson says.

“我们希望创造一个空间，让用户能够引入他们认为最相关的任何知识和专业见解，并以一种能为作者和出版商创造新收入机会的方式来实现，”Johnson 表示。

Google will eventually bring this feature to AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app, both of which can already pull information from Gemini Notebook. The company also has plans to expand Expert Intelligence to support scholarly articles, magazine articles, and newspapers, according to Johnson.

谷歌最终会将此功能引入搜索的 AI 模式（AI Mode）和 Gemini 应用中，这两者目前已经能够从 Gemini Notebook 中提取信息。据 Johnson 透露，该公司还计划扩展“专家智能”功能，以支持学术文章、杂志文章和报纸。